A Rare Chance to See a Turner Masterpiece Up Very Close
The New Yorker · 5 Nov 2026

A Rare Chance to See a Turner Masterpiece Up Very Close

“Rome, from Mount Aventine” is an oil painting by Turner—or, to give him his full due, Joseph Mallord William Turner, R.A. It measures just over three feet by four; owners of a fifty-five-inch TV will have a rough idea of the size, although the colors in the Turner would make the engineers at Samsung break down and cry.


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