Venice: The Dogana and San Giorgio Maggiore
Joseph Mallord William Turner · 1834 · oil on canvas
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About this picture
Venice: The Dogana and San Giorgio Maggiore is a public-domain painting by Joseph Mallord William Turner, dated 1834. Oil on canvas. The file comes from National Gallery of Art.
“Venice: The Dogana and San Giorgio Maggiore” (1834) treats light as the subject. In Turner’s later pictures, ships, storms, and sunrises dissolve, and he showed those canvases as finished works.
About the artist
J. M. W. Turner (1775–1851) was an English landscape painter. His late pictures dissolve ships, storms, and sunrises into light, and he exhibited them as finished works, not sketches.
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