The Bay of Baiae, with Apollo and the Sibyl

The Bay of Baiae, with Apollo and the Sibyl is an 1823 landscape painting by the British artist J.M.W.

Combining genres, it also features the Cumaean Sibyl encountering the god Apollo in the foreground.

Turner had sketched Baiae during his 1819 visit to Italy, and this provided the basis for this work produced in London.

[4] It was the subject of controversy at the time and even Turner's later supporter John Ruskin thought the use of colours was crude.

[5] Today it is in the collection of the Tate Britain in Pimlico, having been acquired by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest in 1856.