#28. Turner & Constable ~ With Director Of The Florence Academy Tom Richards

The Tate Britain exhibition 'Turner & Constable: Rivals and Originals' offers a landmark overview of Britain's two greatest landscape painters, exploring their parallel careers, contrasting personalities, and intense rivalry through over 170 works, marking their 250th birth anniversaries (Turner in 2025, Constable in 2026). The exhibition showcases masterpieces and rarely seen personal items, revealing how their different approaches to landscape. Turner's "poetry" versus Constable's "truth" which challenged art conventions and left a lasting legacy, with works often displayed side-by-side as they were in their own time. In this episode of 'The Lives Of The Artists' podcast, Director of The Florence Academy, Artist and Art Historian and I discuss these two titans of British art. Their lives, careers, work, how they fit into the greater story of art history and defined British landscape painting still to this day.