Painting by J. M. W. Turner
The Bay of Baiae, with Apollo and the Sibyl landscape painting by the British artist J.M.W. Turner .[ 1] [ 2] Bay of Baiae in the Gulf of Naples . Combining genres, it also features the Cumaean Sibyl encountering the god Apollo in the foreground. Turner had sketched Baiae during his 1819 visit to Italy, and this provided the basis for this work produced in London .[ 3]
The painting was displayed at the Royal Academy 's 1823 Summer Exhibition at Somerset House . It was exhibited with a quote from Odes Roman writer Horace .[ 4] John Ruskin thought the use of colours was crude.[ 5] Tate Britain in Pimlico , having been acquired by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest in 1856.[ 6]
See also
References
Bibliography
Bailey, Anthony. J.M.W. Turner: Standing in the Sun . Tate Enterprises Ltd, 2013.
Beckett, R.B. John Constable and the Fishers: The Record of a Friendship . Taylor & Francis, 2023.
Costello, Leo. J.M.W. Turner and the Subject of History . Taylor and Francis, 2017.
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Shanes, Eric. The Life and Masterworks of J.M.W. Turner . Parkstone International, 2012.
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Paintings
Interior of a Romanesque Church c. 1795 –1800)Landscape with Windmill and Rainbow c. 1795 –1800)Diana and Callisto c. 1796 )Fishermen at Sea Interior of a Gothic Church c. 1797 )Limekiln at Coalbrookdale c. 1797 )Moonlight, a Study at Millbank Aeneas and the Sibyl, Lake Avernus c. 1798 )Buttermere Lake Caernarvon Castle c. 1798 )Morning amongst the Coniston Fells, Cumberland Shipping by a Breakwater Tivoli and the Roman Campagna c. 1798 )View of a Town c. 1798 )Dolbadarn Castle Self-Portrait c. 1799 )View in Wales: Mountain Scene with Village and Castle – Evening c. 1799 –1800)Welsh Mountain Landscape 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 )Calais Pier View on Clapham Common c. 1800 –1805)The Shipwreck Two Captured Danish Ships Entering Portsmouth Harbour View of Richmond Hill and Bridge The Garreteer's Petition London from Greenwich Park Ploughing Up Turnips The Fifth Plague of Egypt High Street, Oxford Saltash with the Water Ferry Snow Storm: Hannibal and his Army Frosty Morning Dido building Carthage, or, The Decline of the Carthaginian Empire Dort or Dordrecht: The Field of Waterloo England: Richmond Hill, on the Prince Regent's Birthday Rome, from the Vatican The Battle of Trafalgar The Bay of Baiae Cologne, the Arrival of a Packet Boat in the Evening Forum Romanum Mortlake Terrace Port Ruysdael Chichester Canal East Cowes Castle Regulus Ulysses Deriding Polyphemus Funeral of Sir Thomas Lawrence Childe Harold's Pilgrimage - Italy The Prince of Orange Landing at Torbay The Fountain of Indolence The Golden Bough Venice: The Dogana and San Giorgio Maggiore The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons Rome, From Mount Aventine Venice, from the Porch of Madonna della Salute c. 1835 )The Fighting Temeraire Tugged to Her Last Berth Modern Rome – Campo Vaccino Slave Ship Venice, the Bridge of Sighs Snow Storm: Steam-Boat off a Harbour's Mouth The Blue Rigi The Red Rigi Peace – Burial at Sea War. The Exile and the Rock Limpet Light and Colour (Goethe's Theory) – Rain, Steam and Speed – The Great Western Railway Sunrise with Sea Monsters Norham Castle, Sunrise c. 1845 )Whalers c. 1845 )The Beacon Light Prints Museums Related
