Rome, from the Vatican

Painting by J. M. W. Turner

Rome, from the Vatican

Artist| J. M. W. Turner
Year| 1820
Type| Oil on canvas
Dimensions| 177 cm × 335.5 cm (70 in × 132.1 in)
Location| Tate Britain, London

Rome, from the Vatican is an 1820 history painting by the English artist J. M. W. Turner. Turner painted it following his a lengthy trip to Italy and exhibited it at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition at Somerset House. It commemorates the three hundredth anniversary of the death of the Renaissance painter Raphael.[1] Raphael is shown in the Vatican loggias in the company of La Fornarina overlooking the city of Rome.[2] Its longer title is Rome, from the Vatican. Raffaelle, Accompanied by La Fornarina, Preparing his Pictures for the Decoration of the Loggia.

Turner had recently paid a lengthy visit to Italy and had done extensive sketching around Rome. He painted the work in eight to ten weeks after returning London in time to exhibit at the Royal Academy. He chose to add Bernini's colonnades in St. Peter's Square although these were not constructed until the seventeenth century.[3] Shown around the artist are several of his masterpieces.

It was part of the Turner Bequest in 1856 and is now in the Tate Britain's collection.[4]

## See also

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* List of paintings by J. M. W. Turner

## References

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1. ^ "'Rome, from the Vatican. Raffaelle, Accompanied by la Fornarina, Preparing his Pictures for the Decoration of the Loggia', Joseph Mallord William Turner, exhibited 1820".
2. ^ Hamilton p.250
3. ^ Hamilton p.250-51
4. ^ "'Rome, from the Vatican. Raffaelle, Accompanied by la Fornarina, Preparing his Pictures for the Decoration of the Loggia', Joseph Mallord William Turner, exhibited 1820".

## Bibliography

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* Hamilton, James. Turner - A Life. Sceptre, 1998.

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Paintings|

* Lambeth Palace (1790)
* The Rising Squall (1792)
* Interior of a Romanesque Church (c. 1795–1800)
* Landscape with Windmill and Rainbow (c. 1795–1800)
* Diana and Callisto (c. 1796)
* Fishermen at Sea (1796)
* Interior of a Gothic Church (c. 1797)
* Limekiln at Coalbrookdale (c. 1797)
* Moonlight, a Study at Millbank (1797)
* Dunstanburgh Castle (1798)
* Aeneas and the Sibyl, Lake Avernus (c. 1798)
* Buttermere Lake (1798)
* Caernarvon Castle (c. 1798)
* Morning amongst the Coniston Fells, Cumberland (1798)
* Shipping by a Breakwater (1798)
* Tivoli and the Roman Campagna (c. 1798)
* View of a Town (c. 1798)
* Dolbadarn Castle (1798–1799)
* Self-Portrait (c. 1799)
* View in Wales (c. 1799–1800)
* A Beech Wood with Gypsies round a Campfire (c. 1800)
* A Beech Wood with Gypsies Seated in the Distance (c. 1800)
* Landscape with Lake and Fallen Tree (c. 1800)
* View on Clapham Common (c. 1800–1805)
* The Fifth Plague of Egypt (1800)
* Dutch Boats in a Gale (1801)
* Fishermen Upon a Lee-Shore in Squally Weather (1802)
* The Tenth Plague of Egypt (1802)
* Ben Lomond Mountains, Scotland (1802)
* Jason (1802)
* Ships Bearing Up for Anchorage (1802)
* Bonneville, Savoy (1803)
* Calais Pier (1803)
* The Festival of the Opening of the Vintage at Mâcon (1803)
* The Destruction of Sodom (1805)
* The Deluge (1805)
* The Shipwreck (1805)
* Windsor Castle from the Thames (1805)
* Fall of the Rhine at Schaffhausen (1806)
* The Thames at Weybridge (1806)
* Walton Bridges (1806)
* Cliveden on Thames (1807)
* A Country Blacksmith (1807)
* Linlithgow Palace (1807)
* Sun Rising through Vapour (1807)
* Two Captured Danish Ships Entering Portsmouth Harbour (1807)
* The Junction of the Thames and the Medway (1807)
* The Forest of Bere (1808)
* Pope's Villa at Twickenham (1808)
* Sheerness as Seen from the Nore (1808)
* The Unpaid Bill (1808)
* View of Richmond Hill and Bridge (1808)
* Fishing Upon the Blythe Sand (1809)
* The Garreteer's Petition (1809)
* London from Greenwich Park (1809)
* Ploughing Up Turnips (1809)
* The Trout Stream (1809)
* Sun Setting through Vapour (1809)
* The Fish Market at Hastings Beach (1810)
* High Street, Oxford (1810)
* Apollo and Python (1811)
* Somer Hill, Tonbridge (1811)
* Saltash with the Water Ferry (1811)
* Hulks on the Tamar (1811)
* Teignmouth (1812)
* Hannibal and his Army Crossing the Alps (1812)
* Frosty Morning (1813)
* Dido and Aeneas (1814)
* Dido building Carthage (1815)
* Crossing the Brook (1815)
* The Decline of the Carthaginian Empire (1817)
* Raby Castle (1817)
* Dort or Dordrecht (1818)
* The Field of Waterloo (1818)
* Richmond Hill (1819)
* Entrance of the Meuse (1819)
* Rome, from the Vatican (1820)
* George IV at St Giles's, Edinburgh (1822)
* The Battle of Trafalgar (1822)
* The Bay of Baiae (1823)
* The Harbour of Dieppe (1825)
* Cologne (1826)
* Forum Romanum (1826)
* Mortlake Terrace (1826)
* Port Ruysdael (1826)
* Rembrandt's Daughter (1827)
* The Chain Pier, Brighton (1828)
* Chichester Canal (1828)
* East Cowes Castle (1828)
* Regulus (1828)
* View of Orvieto (1828)
* Vision of Medea (1828)
* The Banks of the Loire (1829)
* The Loretto Necklace (1829)
* Ulysses Deriding Polyphemus (1829)
* The Evening Star (1830)
* Funeral of Sir Thomas Lawrence (1830)
* Pilate Washing his Hands (1830)
* Caligula's Palace and Bridge (1831)
* Christ Driving the Traders from the Temple (1832)
* Childe Harold's Pilgrimage - Italy (1832)
* The Prince of Orange Landing at Torbay (1832)
* Staffa, Fingal's Cave (1832)
* The Fountain of Indolence (1834)
* The Golden Bough (1834)
* Venice: The Dogana and San Giorgio Maggiore (1834)
* St Michael's Mount, Cornwall (1834)
* The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons (1835)
* Keelmen Heaving in Coals by Moonlight (1835)
* Line Fishing, Off Hastings (1835)
* Rome, From Mount Aventine (1835)
* Venice, from the Porch of Madonna della Salute (c. 1835)
* Juliet and her Nurse (1836)
* The Fighting Temeraire (1838)
* Fishing Boats with Hucksters Bargaining for Fish (1838)
* Cicero at His Villa at Tusculum (1839)
* Modern Rome – Campo Vaccino (1839)
* The Slave Ship (1840)
* Neapolitan Fisher Girls Surprised Bathing by Moonlight (1840)
* Venice, the Bridge of Sighs (1840)
* Venice from the Giudecca (1840)
* Schloss Rosenau (1841)
* Snow Storm: Steam-Boat off a Harbour's Mouth (1842)
* The Dogana, San Giorgio, Citella, from the Steps of the Europa (1842)
* The Blue Rigi (1842)
* The Red Rigi (1842)
* Peace – Burial at Sea (1842)
* War. The Exile and the Rock Limpet (1842)
* Light and Colour (1843)
* Approach to Venice (1844)
* Rain, Steam and Speed – The Great Western Railway (1844)
* Sunrise with Sea Monsters (1845)
* Norham Castle, Sunrise (c. 1845)
* Seascape: Folkestone (c. 1845)
* Whalers (c. 1845)
* Queen Mab's Cave (1846)
* The Hero of a Hundred Fights (1847)
* The Wreck Buoy (1849)
* The Departure of the Fleet (1850)
* The Beacon Light (unknown)

Prints|

* Liber Studiorum (1807–1819)

Museums|

* Sandycombe Lodge

Related|

* The Painter (2011 play)
* Mr. Turner (2014 film)
* Thomas Price Turner
* Turner Prize
* Turner Contemporary

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