Caligulas Palace and Bridge is a painting by Joseph Mallord William Turner which was uploaded on October 19th, 2018.
Caligulas Palace and Bridge
This is a reproduction of “Caligula's Palace and Bridge” by Joseph Mallord William Turner of 1831. This master artist was one of the foremost... more
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Title
Caligulas Palace and Bridge
Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner
Medium
Painting - Oil On Canvas
Description
This is a reproduction of “Caligula's Palace and Bridge” by Joseph Mallord William Turner of 1831. This master artist was one of the foremost English Romantic painters of all time. He was controversial in his own day but he raised the art of landscape to rival that genre of historical painting. He not only created wonderful oils, but he also was a master of watercolors and printing. He created this wonderful work at the age of seventy-one. He had receive formal training at the Royal Academy of Art from the age of fourteen and within eight years he was receiving enough patronage to insure his career in art. He died in 1851 in London. The subject of this painting is an episode from the ancient writer Suetonius’s ‘Life’ of the Emperor Caligula. Confounding a prediction that he would no more become emperor than ride across the Gulf of Baiae with horses, Caligula constructed an artificial floating bridge of boats which he then crossed with a chariot. Turner has depicted the bridge as a solid construction. It has, however, like the adjacent palace, fallen into ruin and decay. The picture was widely admired in 1831. The Times described it as ‘one of the most beautiful and magnificent landscapes that ever mind conceived or pencil drew’. 'This masterpiece is in the Tate Gallery in London and is an oil on canvas on paper measuring 137.2 by 246.4 centimeters.
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