The Grand Canal in Venice from Palazzo Flangini to Campo San Marcuola (detail), about 1738, Canaletto. Oil on canvas. The J. Paul Getty Museum
Serene and Eternal: Turner and Canaletto in Venice and Rome
GETTY CENTER
Harold M. Williams Auditorium
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“Venice was surely built to be painted by Canaletto and Turner,” wrote the Art Union of London in 1842. Peter Björn Kerber, co-curator of the exhibition J. M. W. Turner: Painting Set Free, discusses how these two painters took radically different approaches to portraying the splendors of Venice as well as the monuments of ancient and modern Rome: while Canaletto delighted in details of architecture and everyday life, Turner privileged atmosphere over accuracy.