Ancient Roman ruins glow through a luminous haze above the modern city.

Courtesy of the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles · CC0

J. Paul Getty Museum

Painting

Modern Rome — Campo Vaccino

J. M. W. Turner · 1839

J. Paul Getty Museum
Getty Center, Los Angeles

Why it stays

History and the present occupy the same luminous, unstable atmosphere.

Medium
Oil on canvas
Collection
J. Paul Getty Museum

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