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Dido building Carthage
1815
Architecture rises on either side of a luminous waterway. Even in a scene of imperial ambition, light directs the eye more insistently than the monuments.
Artist field note
J.M.W. Turner
Light makes the solid world unstable.
Appears inUnited Kingdom
The five in one idea
Turner used light and weather to unsettle the apparent solidity of ships, cities and machines, making landscape carry history as well as sensation.