The artist J.M.W. Turner is widely recognised as England's greatest painter. Tate has the world's finest and most extensive collection of his work. Turner at Tate explores Turner's art through many of his best-known canvases and exquisite sketches and watercolours, all newly and exceptionally filmed in HDTV from the original artworks. Incorporating the landscapes and places that inspired the works, the film provides an overview of Turner's life and...

An exploration of the life and works of the painter Turner. It covers the entire period of his lifetime from the early years up until his death in 1851. It features an illustrated description and investigation of his life, his travels, his artistic influences and aspects of his personal life.

Venice is the subject that dominates the later, glorious paintings and watercolours of J.M.W. Turner. Its shimmering light, its ethereal beauty and its faded magnificence inspired some of Turner's best-loved, most magical and most mysterious images. Turner was forty-four when he first became one of the many distinguished nineteenth-century visitors to Venice. During this 1819 trip and two further stays in 1833 and 1840, he created a host of brilliant...

Alternating between 19th-century Europe and present-day New England, this novel, exploring the ever-evolving role of art in our lives, follows Henry who, stumbling upon a controversial painting of Helen of Troy that had been thought to be lost forever, is torn between wanting to sell the work and keeping something of beauty in his life.

"Following his 'obsessive, intricate, intimate, and brilliant' (Washington Post) work in Posthumous Keats and The Immortal Evening, renowned poet Stanley Plumly further explores immortality in art through the work of two impressive landscape artists: John Constable and J.M.W. Turner. How is it that this disparate pair will come to be regarded as Britain's supreme landscape painters, precursors to Impressionism and Modernism? How did each painter's...

In separate episodes, art historian Tim Marlow explores the lives and works of Vermeer, Turner, and Van Gogh. Filming takes place throughout the world.