Juliet and her Nurse

Juliet and her Nurse is an oil painting by Joseph Mallord William Turner in the AMALITA Collection, Buenos Aires. Painted in 1836, it depicts a view of Venice at dusk. The scene features a crowd of Venetians who have assembled in St. Mark's Square to watch fireworks exploding against a blue and yellow sky. On a balcony in the lower right corner stand Juliet and her nurse, two characters from the play Romeo and Juliet by English playwright William Shakespeare. In a departure from Romeo and Juliet's Verona setting, Turner incongruously placed the characters in Venice instead.