LOS ANGELES, CA.- The J. Paul Getty Museum announces that J.M.W. Turner’s masterpiece Modern Rome – Campo Vaccino (1838-39) is now on view at the Getty Center. The recently acquired painting shows a view of Rome from the Capitoline Hill, as if looking from high in the air down upon the Campo Vaccino in the center of Old Rome, revealing the noble ruins surrounding the ancient forum and a number of still-active Baroque churches. In the foreground appears a group of women, children, and goats, in picturesque contrast to the religious procession in front of the church of Santi Luca e Martina in the near distance below. Modern Rome – Campo Vaccino joins three other works by Turner already in the Getty Museum’s collection. One of Turner’s most important historical paintings, Van Tromp, Going about to Please his Masters, Ships a Sea, Getting a Good Wetting, from 1844, was acquired by the Museum in 1993, and is