Showing 37 results for 'J.M.W. Turner'
J.M.W. Turner’s Remedy: A Cure for Bilious Bowels
Ever wondered what you’d do if you were to suffer from the unpleasantries of a bout of traveller’s diarrhoea or …
J.M.W. Turner: Fire at the Tower of London
New research has solved the mystery about J.M.W. Turner’s watercolour sketches, which were previously thought to show the notorious fire …
Dating J.M.W. Turner: Another Visit to the Netherlands
New research has helped to date one of Turner’s sketchbooks from a trip along the river Rhine, from Rotterdam south …
‘Fire and Water’: Turner and Constable in the Royal Academy, 1831
Pictures by John Constable and J.M.W. Turner hung side by side in the Royal Academy in 1831, an arrangement orchestrated …
The Fall of Anarchy : Politics and Anatomy in an Enigmatic Painting by J.M.W. Turner
The subject of Turner’s mysterious unfinished painting, known today as Death on a Pale Horse, is a problem that …
Critical Dilation: How William Hazlitt Judged Paintings
For William Hazlitt paintings become politically charged when their self-contained worlds make us aware of our creative potential for renewing …
Tate Papers no.25: Spring 2016
This issue explores the theme of collaboration, focusing on examples of artistic projects that draw attention to the political implications …
‘Suffer a Sea-Change’: Turner, Painting, Drowning
This paper reflects upon the implications of J.M.W. Turner’s close and varied attention to the depiction of sea-water. In particular, …
Tate Papers no.33: 2020
Tate Papers issue no.33 2020, featuring a group of papers on John Constable, alongside articles on Eva Hesse, Gary Hume, …
Open Access Repository: Enhancing Research in Cultural Organisations
The open access repository pilot project is one among many initiatives being undertaken by Tate to make its research more …
Gothic Cathedrals from Romanticism to Modernism: Images and Ideas
Taking as its starting point John Constable’s Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows exhibited 1831, this paper considers what factors made …
The Framing of John Constable’s Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows
This paper examines the re-framing of John Constable’s Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows, first exhibited at the Royal Academy …
William Blake’s 1809 Exhibition
This paper introduces the 1809 London exhibition that William Blake organised of his own works, exploring its high ambition and …
Memory and the Aesthetics of Military Experience: Viewing the Landscape of the Anglo-Mysore Wars
Examining landscape imagery produced after the third Anglo-Mysore War (1789–92), Rosie Dias argues that these works oscillated between memorialisation, personal …
The Painting
Tate In Focus research project exploring Mousehold Heath, Norwich c.1818–20 by John Crome
Mousehold Heath, the Norwich School and Similar Landscapes Beyond
Tate In Focus research project exploring Mousehold Heath, Norwich c.1818–20 by John Crome
The Materials Used by British Oil Painters in the Nineteenth Century
This paper reviews existing literature on nineteenth-century British artists’ materials. Sources of information, such as colourmen’s archives, artists’ diaries and …
Listening for the Sublime: Aural-Visual Improvisations in Nineteenth-Century Musical Art
Music’s capacity to expose the contradictions which emerged within late nineteenth-century understandings of the sublime is explored in relation to …
The Roman Campagna Revisited: Art & Environment
Richard Wrigley reconnects the Roman campagna – a landscape endowed with considerable artistic significance – with its troubled history as …
Religion and Politics
Tate Research In Focus project on John Constable's Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows 1831