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Artist J.M.W. Turner, RA. The Engravings. Perhaps the most
famous English
Romantic landscape artist. Turner products many engravings and was very
hands-on in there progress to printings.
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Lake Avernus - The Fates and the Golden Bough
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| This picture is one of the Vernon Collection now in the National
Gallery; it was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1834. As a specimen of
Turner’s ideal-landscape painting it is, perhaps. unrivalled for its
size. Its richness of colour, aerial perspective, and the infinite
fullness of every inch of the canvas appear miraculous. In the Catalogue
of the National Gallery- it is called “Lake Avernus—The Fates and the
Golden Bough.” The golden bough, as described by Virgil in the sixth
book of the AEneid, grew on a tree in a grove near Lake Avermis, and was
the passport to the Infernal Regions. AEneas, wishing to visit his
father Anchises in the nether world, was directed by the Cuma3an Sibyl
to seek for and pluck this bough, which with the aid of the doves of his
mother, Venus, he succeeded doing. What Turner precisely meant by the
figures in this picture it is difficult to say; but, speaking of this
picture and that of “ The Bay of Baiae," Ruskin remarks that “in both
these pictures there is a snake in the foreground - among the fairest
leafage, a type of the terror, or temptation, which is associated with
the lovely landscapes; and it is curious that Turner seems to have -
exerted all L strength to give the most alluring loveliness to the soft
descents of the Avernus Lake.” |
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