Skyscape: The limitless art of the sky at River & Rowing Museum

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“The sky is the source of light in nature – and governs everything.” – John Constable

 

Celebrating 500 years of artists’ fascination with the sky, Skyscape: The limitless art of the sky, is the River & Rowing Museum’s autumn exhibition for 2021.

Across a wide variety of media including engraving, etching, ceramic, mezzotint, watercolour, graphic sketches and oil, the exhibition features masterpieces of some of history’s most celebrated artists including Albrecht Dürer, Rembrandt, J M W Turner, Samuel Palmer, John Ruskin and Paul Nash.

The exhibition is organised by the Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford. Showcasing over 30 masterpieces from the Ashmolean, Skyscape: The limitless art of the sky explores aerial landscapes as a symbol of the divine, as a subject of scientific interest and as means of emotional escape and expression for both artist and viewer.

Images:

John Piper, Distant View of Windsor Castle from the North, 1942 © The Piper Estate / DACS 2021. © Ashmolean Museum

Rembrandt, The Three Trees, 1643 © Ashmolean Museum