In addition to paintings and drawings by the famous landscape painter Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775–1851), the exhibition features works by his equally renowned contemporaries, such as John Robert Cozens, Francis Towne, William Pars, Richard Wilson and Joseph Wright of Derby.
For centuries, Italy, the land of Antiquity and the Renaissance, attracted travellers and artists. However, under the influence of Romanticism, a change took place in the 19th century. Italy was no longer the only destination. Painters and tourists began to explore other regions of Europe, such as the Swiss Alps and the valleys of the Seine, Loire and Rhine. Their interest ranged from Roman ruins and bucolic landscapes to Gothic cathedrals and medieval castles. Turner and the other British artists featured in the exhibition illustrate this transition, which revolutionised the representation of landscape.
From Turner's two stays in Luxembourg in 1824 and 1839, the exhibition shows seven views of the city of Luxembourg (Bock, Plateau du Rham, Vallée de l'Alzette) in gouache.
In cooperation with TATE
(c) JMW Turner, The Rham Plateau and the Bock, Luxembourg, from the North-East, c. 1839. Ref. D20245. Photo : Tate
4 Sat
Regular guided tour: Grand Tourists to Turner
15h00
LECTURE
