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Radio 4,15 Nov 2022,28 mins

The Campo Santo, Venice by Turner

Moving Pictures

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Cathy FitzGerald invites you to discover new details in old masterpieces. Each episode of Moving Pictures is devoted to a single artwork - and you're invited to look as well as listen, by following a link to a high-resolution image made by Google Arts & Culture. Zoom in and you can see the pores of the canvas, the sweep of individual brushstrokes, the shimmer of pointillist dots. This episode takes a closer look at a masterpiece in the collection of The Toledo Museum of Art. In The Campo Santo, Venice, JMW Turner gives us a warm day on the Venetian lagoon, where fishing boats bob and the city shimmers in the sun's glare. It's beautiful - somehow lit from within - and full of rewarding details, from a mysterious gondola passenger to Turner's ridiculously audacious, playful use of paint. To see the super high-resolution image of the work made by Google Arts & Culture, visit www.bbc.co.uk/movingpictures. Scroll down and follow the link to explore the high-resolution image of The Campo Santo, Venice. Interviewees: Ian Warrell, Francesca Whitlum-Cooper, Franny Moyle, Christine Riding and Larry Nichols. Producer and Presenter: Cathy FitzGerald Executive Producer: Sarah Cuddon Mix Engineer: Mike Woolley Art History Consultants: Leah Kharibian and Robert Schindler A White Stiletto production for BBC Radio 4 Picture credit: J.M.W. Turner, The Campo Santo, Venice detail, 1842, Toledo Museum of Art, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey, 1926.63

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