melrose abbey william turnerWilliam Turner's Melrose Abbey is a poetic immersion in a landscape haunted by time. The work depicts the ruins of Melrose Abbey in Scotland, bathed in a soft, melancholy light. The remains of the Gothic edifice stand proud against a sky of changing hues, where touches of blue, pink and gold seem to evoke the passage of time. Turner, the master of British Romanticism, gives an almost supernatural impression of tranquillity. The blurred contours, the