The Tate Gallery's amazing 3D site on the great English artist
For the first time, you can now experience what it might have been like to visit Turner's Gallery, by entering our 3D recreation.
Turner altered his house and gallery several times, but we know most about what it looked like in his later life. This 3D recreation is based on research carried out by Dr Selby Whittingham.
The gallery measured about nineteen by fifteen feet, with red walls, a fireplace, and a central skylight. The natural light from above was diffused in a makeshift way, by nets covered with tissue paper and hung across the ceiling. The paintings were shown close together on the walls, though some of them just stood on the floor. Like many artists, Turner was often furious about the way his paintings were displayed at the Royal Academy exhibitions. In his own gallery he could control the way his work was seen and, as Lady Trevelyan explains, for visitors the experience was often a revelation...
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