# San Giorgio Maggiore at Dawn [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [TURNER, Joseph Mallord William]() - Date: 1801-1850 - Technique: Watercolour, 224 x 287 mm ## Commentary No other Romantic artist was as radical in his depiction of atmospheric phenomena as Turner, who was responsible for taking the British watercolour tradition of the 18th century into the modern era. His watercolours of Venice, painted during his first journey to Italy, amount to a minor revolution, in which the artist recreated the fleeting impressions of a passing moment with the most sparing of means by using pure, transparent surfaces of colour. The coloured background was composed of various layers, each applied while the previous one was still wet. ## Related artworks - [Camposanto]() - [Dido Building Carthage or the Rise of the Carthaginian Empire]() - [Dutch Boats in a Gale]() - [Fishermen at Sea]() - [Frosty Morning]() - [Heriot's Hospital, Edinburgh]() - [Landscape with a River and a Bay in the Background]() - [Morning amongst the Coniston Fells]() - [Norham Castle, Sunrise]() - [Peace - Burial at Sea]() - [Quillebeuf, at the Mouth of Seine]() - [Rain, Steam and Speed The Great Western Railway]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()