Galerie Mont Giudecca, La Donna della Salute and San Giorgio – William Turner^ Turner

Giudecca, La Donna della Salute and San Giorgio by William Turner transport us to a romantic and almost unreal Venice. This marine painting, in delicate shades, depicts the dawn breaking over the lagoon, with the diffuse silhouettes of the emblematic buildings of the City of the Doges. The palette is dominated by pastel shades of gold, white and blue, creating a serene and mysterious atmosphere.

Here Turner mastered his art of the landscape, flirting with abstraction. His treatment of light, at the heart of British Romanticism, transforms the scene into a veritable symphony of colours. The landscape, almost dissolved, is reduced to its most elementary components, evoking a dreamed Venice rather than a real one. In this work, Turner boldly prefigures future Expressionism and Impressionism.

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