Turner *

The album of Turner's works we have at home famously states in the preface that Turner's work cannot be reproduced. Even the best print only serves to awaken one's curiosity about the original.

Indeed the reproduction of the painting I found on line does not do much justice to the original but it should give a good impression of what I was saying about Turner's late works. Monika and I we were having a conversation about her pictures of Venice (she goes there almost every year photographying extensively but she is complaining that she still have not managed to grasp the image of the city the way she would liked to) and I think Turner's version could provide her with some inspiration.


Well, she probably knows this image already, but just in case: