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Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775–1851
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Aeneas' visit to the underworld
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Aeneas
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Publius Vergilius Maro (70 BC–19 BC), classical Roman poet
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Sibyl of Cumae
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Classic Ground - British Artists and the Landscape of Italy, 1740-1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 1981-07-29 - 1981-09-20)
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Great British Paintings from American Collections: Holbein to Hockney (The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, 2002-02-01 - 2002-05-05)
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Great British Paintings from American Collections: Holbein to Hockney (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-09-27 - 2001-12-30)
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In a New Light: Paintings from the Yale Center for British Art (Yale University Art Gallery, 2023-03-24 - 2023-12-03)
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J. M. W. Turner (Musée du Louvre, 1983-10-14 - 1984-01-16)
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J. M. W. Turner - A Selection of Paintings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon (National Gallery of Art, 1968-10-31 - 1969-04-21)
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J.M.W. Turner: Romance & Reality (Yale Center for British Art, 2025-03-29 - 2025-07-27)
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Nobleness and Grandeur - Forging Historical Landscape in Britain, 1760 - 1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 2005-01-27 - 2005-04-24)
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Painting in England 1700-1850 - From The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon (Yale University Art Gallery, 1965-04-15 - 1965-06-20)
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Richard Wilson and the Transformation of European Landscape Painting (Yale Center for British Art, 2014-03-06 - 2014-06-01)
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Romanticism (Gallerie d'Italia - Piazza Scala, 2018-10-25 - 2019-03-17)
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This Other Eden : British Paintings from the Paul Mellon Collection at Yale (Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1998-05-01 - 1998-07-05)
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This Other Eden : British Paintings from the Paul Mellon Collection at Yale (Art Gallery of South Australia, 1998-09-16 - 1998-11-15)
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This Other Eden : British Paintings from the Paul Mellon Collection at Yale (Queensland Art Gallery, 1998-07-15 - 1998-09-06)
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Turner (British Council - Japan) (Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, 1986-10-14 - 1986-11-16)
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Turner (British Council - Japan) (The National Museum of Western Art, 1986-08-16 - 1986-10-05)
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Turner and Italy (National Gallery of Scotland, 2009-03-26 - 2009-06-07)
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Turner and Italy (Palazzo dei Diamanti, Ferrara, 2008-11-16 - 2009-02-22)
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Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851
Lake Avernus: Aeneas and the Cumaean Sibyl
between 1814 and 1815
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