Modern Rome – Campo Vaccino
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Modern Rome – Campo Vaccino is a landscape by British artist Joseph Mallord William Turner completed in 1839. It is Turner's final painting of Rome and had been in the possession of the family of the
Joseph Mallord William Turner
Hugh Andrew Johnstone Munro of Novar was a British art collector.
Modern Rome – Campo Vaccino
…indicators of modern life, including goatherds. One of Turner's main themes in the work was the rise and fall of civilizations. It was first purchased by Hugh Munro, a friend and patron of Turner, from a Royal Academy exhibition in 1839. The painting was purchased for 4,450 guineas by the 5th Earl of Rosebery and…
Turner's Venice from the Porch of Madonna della Salute (1837), now in the Metropolitan Museum, New York. Munro commissioned the painting but did not like it.
Turner, The Lake of Zug, Metropolitan Museum, New York
Raphael, Madonna dei candelabri (Walters Art Museum, Baltimore), acquired by Munro after 1841
Andrea del Sarto, Charity (National Gallery, Washington)