Monday, April 21, 2014

Hogarth, Reynolds, Turner. British Painting and the Rise of Modernity


The exhibition Hogarth, Reynolds, Turner. British Painting and the Rise of Modernity, held in the exhibition halls of the Fondazione Roma Museo, Palazzo Sciarra, Rome, will be open to the public from the 15th April to the 20th July 2014. Promoted by Fondazione Roma and organised by Fondazione Roma-Arte-Musei, over one-hundred works by some of the most important painters of the time, such as Hogarth, Reynolds, Gainsborough, Wright of Derby, Stubbs, Fuseli, Constable and Turner, will review British painting in the eighteenth century.

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Images from the exhibition:

Joshua Reynolds Lady Bampfyld

 


 
Canaletto La City di Londra vista attraverso un arco di Westminster Bridge   





John Constable The Millstream Willy Lotts House 



William Turner Paesaggio a Nepi Lazio con acquedotto e cascata  


 
Joseph Wright of Derby. Cave in Gulf of Salerno



Joseph Wright of Derby. Snowdown moonlight, oil on canvas, cm. 88 x 123