The Sea Invisible: Venice on canvas

Approach to Venice (1844) Ruskin said about this painting that it was “the most perfectly beautiful piece of color of all that I have seen produced by human hands, by any means, or at any period.” It is Approach to Venice, by J. M. W. Turner, the British painter from the nineteenth century who so gloriously captured colors and light in washes of paint, decades before the Impressionists came on the scene.