Vision of Medea is an 1828 oil painting by the British artist J.M.W. Turner combining elements of landscape and history painting. It features a scene based on Greek Mythology with Medea gathering ingredients to cast a spell after she has been rejected by Jason, the leader of the Argonauts.[1]
It was produced while Turner was visiting Italy and was first shown in a mini-exhibition in his artist's studio at the Palazzo Trulli in Rome.[2] Although he hoped to display it at the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition of 1829 at Somerset House, it did not arrive from Italy in time.[3] Two years later it was displayed at the Royal Academy Exhibition of 1831 where it hung to one side of John Constable's Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows, sandwiching it between another Turner picture Caligula's Palace and Bridge.
Today the painting is in the collection of the Tate Britain in London having been part of the Turner Bequest of 1856.[4]
- ^ Finley p.56-67
- ^ Hamilton p.362
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- Bailey, Anthony. J.M.W. Turner: Standing in the Sun. Tate Enterprises, 2013.
- Costello, Leo. J.M.W. Turner and the Subject of History. Routledge, 2017.
- Finley, Gerald. Angel in the Sun; Turner's Vision of History. McGill-Queen's University Press, 1999.
- Hamilton, James. Constable: A Portrait. Hachette UK, 2022.
- Hamilton, James. Turner - A Life. Sceptre, 1998.
- Reynolds, Graham. Turner. Thames & Hudson, 2022.
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- Lambeth Palace (1790)
- The Rising Squall (1792)
- Interior of a Romanesque Church (c. 1795–1800)
- Landscape with Windmill and Rainbow (c. 1795–1800)
- Diana and Callisto (c. 1796)
- Fishermen at Sea (1796)
- Interior of a Gothic Church (c. 1797)
- Limekiln at Coalbrookdale (c. 1797)
- Moonlight, a Study at Millbank (1797)
- Dunstanburgh Castle (1798)
- Aeneas and the Sibyl, Lake Avernus (c. 1798)
- Buttermere Lake (1798)
- Caernarvon Castle (c. 1798)
- Morning amongst the Coniston Fells, Cumberland (1798)
- Shipping by a Breakwater (1798)
- Tivoli and the Roman Campagna (c. 1798)
- View of a Town (c. 1798)
- Dolbadarn Castle (1798–1799)
- Self-Portrait (c. 1799)
- View in Wales (c. 1799–1800)
- A Beech Wood with Gypsies round a Campfire (c. 1800)
- A Beech Wood with Gypsies Seated in the Distance (c. 1800)
- Landscape with Lake and Fallen Tree (c. 1800)
- View on Clapham Common (c. 1800–1805)
- The Fifth Plague of Egypt (1800)
- Dutch Boats in a Gale (1801)
- Fishermen Upon a Lee-Shore in Squally Weather (1802)
- The Tenth Plague of Egypt (1802)
- Ben Lomond Mountains, Scotland (1802)
- Jason (1802)
- Ships Bearing Up for Anchorage (1802)
- Bonneville, Savoy (1803)
- Calais Pier (1803)
- The Festival of the Opening of the Vintage at Mâcon (1803)
- Boats Carrying Out Anchors (1804)
- The Destruction of Sodom (1805)
- The Deluge (1805)
- The Shipwreck (1805)
- Windsor Castle from the Thames (1805)
- Fall of the Rhine at Schaffhausen (1806)
- The Thames at Weybridge (1806)
- Walton Bridges (1806)
- Cliveden on Thames (1807)
- A Country Blacksmith (1807)
- Linlithgow Palace (1807)
- Sun Rising through Vapour (1807)
- Two Captured Danish Ships Entering Portsmouth Harbour (1807)
- The Junction of the Thames and the Medway (1807)
- The Forest of Bere (1808)
- Pope's Villa at Twickenham (1808)
- Margate (1808)
- Sheerness as Seen from the Nore (1808)
- The Unpaid Bill (1808)
- View of Richmond Hill and Bridge (1808)
- Fishing Upon the Blythe Sand (1809)
- The Garreteer's Petition (1809)
- Harvest Dinner, Kingston Bank (1809)
- London from Greenwich Park (1809)
- Ploughing Up Turnips (1809)
- The Trout Stream (1809)
- Sun Setting through Vapour (1809)
- The Fish Market at Hastings Beach (1810)
- High Street, Oxford (1810)
- The Wreck of a Transport Ship (1810)
- Apollo and Python (1811)
- Somer Hill, Tonbridge (1811)
- Saltash with the Water Ferry (1811)
- Hulks on the Tamar (1811)
- St Mawes at the Pilchard Season (1812)
- Teignmouth (1812)
- Hannibal and his Army Crossing the Alps (1812)
- Frosty Morning (1813)
- Dido and Aeneas (1814)
- Dido building Carthage (1815)
- Crossing the Brook (1815)
- The Decline of the Carthaginian Empire (1817)
- Raby Castle (1817)
- Dort or Dordrecht (1818)
- The Field of Waterloo (1818)
- Richmond Hill (1819)
- Entrance of the Meuse (1819)
- Rome, from the Vatican (1820)
- George IV at St Giles's, Edinburgh (1822)
- The Battle of Trafalgar (1822)
- The Bay of Baiae (1823)
- The Harbour of Dieppe (1825)
- Cologne (1826)
- Forum Romanum (1826)
- Mortlake Terrace (1826)
- Port Ruysdael (1826)
- Rembrandt's Daughter (1827)
- Scene in Derbyshire (1827)
- The Chain Pier, Brighton (1828)
- Chichester Canal (1828)
- East Cowes Castle (1828)
- Palestrina (1828)
- Regulus (1828)
- View of Orvieto (1828)
- Vision of Medea (1828)
- The Banks of the Loire (1829)
- The Loretto Necklace (1829)
- Ulysses Deriding Polyphemus (1829)
- Calais Sands at Low Water (1830)
- The Evening Star (1830)
- Funeral of Sir Thomas Lawrence (1830)
- Pilate Washing his Hands (1830)
- Caligula's Palace and Bridge (1831)
- Lifeboat and Manby Apparatus Going Off to a Stranded Vessel (1831)
- Van Tromp's Barge Entering the Texel (1831)
- Christ Driving the Traders from the Temple (1832)
- Childe Harold's Pilgrimage - Italy (1832)
- The Prince of Orange Landing at Torbay (1832)
- Helvoetsluys (1832)
- Staffa, Fingal's Cave (1832)
- Quillebeuf, Mouth of the Seine (1833)
- Rotterdam Ferry-Boat (1833)
- The Fountain of Indolence (1834)
- The Golden Bough (1834)
- Venice: The Dogana and San Giorgio Maggiore (1834)
- St Michael's Mount, Cornwall (1834)
- The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons (1835)
- A Disaster at Sea (1835)
- Keelmen Heaving in Coals by Moonlight (1835)
- Line Fishing, Off Hastings (1835)
- Rome, From Mount Aventine (1835)
- Venice, from the Porch of Madonna della Salute (c. 1835)
- Juliet and her Nurse (1836)
- The Parting of Hero and Leander (1837)
- The Fighting Temeraire (1838)
- Fishing Boats with Hucksters Bargaining for Fish (1838)
- Phryne Going to the Public Baths as Venus (1838)
- Cicero at His Villa at Tusculum (1839)
- Modern Rome – Campo Vaccino (1839)
- The Slave Ship (1840)
- Neapolitan Fisher Girls Surprised Bathing by Moonlight (1840)
- Venice, the Bridge of Sighs (1840)
- Venice from the Giudecca (1840)
- Schloss Rosenau (1841)
- Campo Santo (1842)
- Snow Storm: Steam-Boat off a Harbour's Mouth (1842)
- The Dogana, San Giorgio, Citella, from the Steps of the Europa (1842)
- The Blue Rigi (1842)
- The Red Rigi (1842)
- Peace – Burial at Sea (1842)
- War. The Exile and the Rock Limpet (1842)
- Light and Colour (1843)
- The Opening of the Wallhalla (1843)
- St Benedetto, Looking Towards Fusina (1843)
- The Sun of Venice Going to Sea (1843)
- Venice, Maria della Salute (1844)
- Approach to Venice (1844)
- Venice Quay, Ducal Palace (1844)
- Ostend (1844)
- Rain, Steam and Speed – The Great Western Railway (1844)
- The Arrival of Louis-Philippe at Portsmouth (1845)
- Sunrise with Sea Monsters (1845)
- Norham Castle, Sunrise (c. 1845)
- Seascape: Folkestone (c. 1845)
- Whalers (1845)
- Whalers Entangled in Flaw Ice (1846)
- Queen Mab's Cave (1846)
- The Hero of a Hundred Fights (1847)
- The Wreck Buoy (1849)
- Mercury Sent to Admonish Aeneas (1850)
- The Departure of the Fleet (1850)
- The Beacon Light (unknown)
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