ID: 700008295 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700008295	Record Type: Movable Work
Images: 1

Modern Rome - Campo Vaccino (painting (visual work); Joseph Mallord William Turner (English painter and draftsman...; 1839; J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center (Los Angeles, Los A...; 2011.6)

Note: A view made as if swooping from high in the air down upon the Campo Vaccino in the center of old Rome from the Capitoline Hill, Turner's Modern Rome - Campo Vaccino reveals the noblest ruins surrounding the ancient forum - from right to left, the Temple of Vespasian and Temple of Saturn, the Colosseum glowing in the distance, the Temple of Antoninus and Faustina and finally the Arch of Septimius Severus - as well as the still active churches of baroque Rome - Santa Francesca Romana with its tall, brick bell tower (a modern facade by Pietro da Cortona, 1640) and Santi Luca e Martina with its high dome - and the campo temporarily occupied with a group of contemporary women and their children and goats in the shadowed foreground and a gathering of monks in front of the church of Luca and Martina. Turner's painting revels in the crumbling remains of the ancient city, weeds invading the fallen marbles' interstices, its spoliated rebuilding in the 16th and 17th centuries, and its continued use in the present, a place at once pulsing with history and providing a setting for the daily activities of contemporary life. It is the fame and vitality of the famous city, literally glowing by the evanescent silvery light of an early-rising moon that Turner celebrates here. The obdurate building stone and pulsing flesh of the figures literally etherealized by Turner's extraordinary technical skill.

Titles:

Modern Rome - Campo Vaccino (preferred,C,U,RP,English-P,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

painting (visual work) [300033618] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>)

Classifications:

paintings (preferred)

Creation Date: 1839

Creator Display:

Joseph Mallord William Turner (English painter and draftsman, 1775-1851) [preferred,JPGM]

painter Turner, Joseph Mallord William (English painter and draftsman, 1775-1851) [500026846]

Locations:

Current: J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center (Los Angeles, Los Angeles county, California, United States) [500329598] J. Paul Getty Museum, J. Paul Getty Trust, Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: 2011.6

Other: Creation: England [7002445] United Kingdom (nation), Europe (continent), World (facet) (Geographic)

Display Materials: Oil on canvas

	oil paint (paint) [300015050]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>, paint (coating), <paint by composition or origin>)

	canvas (textile material) [300014078]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by form>, <materials by physical form>, <fiber and fiber by product>, <fiber by product>, textile materials, <textile materials by process or technique>)

Dimensions: Unframed: 91.8 x 122.6 cm (36 1/8 x 48 1/4 in.); Framed [outer dim]: 122.6 x 153.4 x 11.1 cm (48 1/4 x 60 3/8 x 4 3/8 in.)

Cultures:

British (preferred)

English

Style/Period/Group/Movement:

	Romantic (modern European styles) [300172863] (preferred,N/A)
	.....(Styles and Periods Facet, Styles and Periods (hierarchy name), <styles| periods| and cultures by region>, European, <modern European styles and movements>)

General Subject:

cityscapes (preferred,description)

architecture (description)

Specific Subjects:

	Roma [7000874]
	.....(Roma province (province), Lazio (region (administrative division)), Italy (nation), Europe (continent), World (facet)) (TGN)

	ruins [300008057]
	.....(Objects Facet, Built Environment (hierarchy name), Single Built Works (hierarchy name), single built works (built environment), <single built works by specific type>, <single built works by condition>) (AAT)

	figures (representations) [300189808]
	.....(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by subject type>) (AAT)

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

Sources and Contributors:
Modern Rome - Campo Vaccino	........ [JPGM,VP]
	........ J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)

Subject: ....... [JPGM,VP]

Note:
English	..... [JPGM]
	..... J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)