TURNER. PAESAGGI DELLA MITOLOGIA

The exhibition draws from the artist’s extensive collection of works held at the Tate UK. Counting around forty pieces, the selection includes striking and impressive oil paintings (made by Turner to be exhibited at the Royal Academy in London), as well as oil sketches and smaller watercolours in which the artist gave free rein to his creativity in the reproduction of landscapes inspired by the themes of classical mythology. Active during the first half of the 19th century, Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851) is one of the best-loved and best-known British artists. He is famous for his remarkable variety of landscape paintings, extraordinary inventiveness and expressive use of colour. His career developed during the current of Romanticism, which saw painters move away from the constraining artistic subjects and controlled manipulation of the neoclassical period and develop a much more personal figurative language.