Sky and Clouds

The sky is the greatest subject of all, but also the hardest to capture: it has no form, and clouds never stop changing. In art the sky has been both the dwelling place of God and a field for scientific observation. We follow it from star-strewn domes and the opened ceilings of the Baroque, through Constable’s cloud studies, Turner’s light and Friedrich’s empty skies, to Magritte’s enigmatic daylight and the stylised clouds of China and Japan.

• The Vault of Heaven – Domes and Stars
• The Renaissance – A Hole in the Ceiling
• The Baroque – Open Heavens and Dutch Clouds
• Tiepolo’s Luminous Sky – the 18th Century
• The Science of Clouds – Constable and Turner
• The Sky as Soul – Friedrich, van Gogh and the North
• Clouds in China and Japan
• The Modern Cloud – From Magritte to the Present