Tag: Canaletto

Padova (Italia)

Padova in Art: Canaletto (1697-1768) Capriccio con reminiscenze di Padova c.1740–1745 Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo     Births: • Livy (59 BC-17 AD) Deaths: • Livy (59 BC-17 AD) See also: • Cities | Italia

Capriccio con colonna (c.1754)

Canaletto (1697-1768) Capriccio con colonna (English Landscape Capriccio with a Column) c.1754 Oil on canvas, 134 x 106.4 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington We look slightly down across a sun-drenched plaza with people scattered among ruins, buildings, and around…

Capriccio con palazzo (c.1754)

Canaletto (1697-1768) Capriccio con palazzo (English Landscape Capriccio with a Palace) c.1754 Oil on canvas, 134 x 108.8 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Sun pours across a landscape with trees and plants growing around and on an arched stone…

Piazza San Marco (1742-1744)

Canaletto (1697-1768) Piazza San Marco (The Square of Saint Mark’s, Venice) 1742–1744 Oil on canvas, 114.6 x 153 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Dozens of men with several women and a few children gather in pairs or small groups…

Piazza San Marco, Venezia (1730-1734)

Canaletto (1697-1768) Piazza San Marco, Venezia (Piazza San Marco, Venice) c.1730–1734 Oil on canvas, 76.2 x 118.8 cm Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA Canaletto, celebrated for his views of Venice (vedute), depicts the city’s principal square of San Marco, which was…

Canal Grande e Santa Maria della Salute (c.1730)

Canaletto (1697-1768) Canal Grande e Santa Maria della Salute (Entrance to the Grand Canal, Venice) c.1730 Oil on canvas, 49.53 x 73.66 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Painted views of towns and landscapes were enormously popular in the 18th…

Piazza San Marco (late 1720s)

Canaletto (1697-1768) Piazza San Marco (St Mark’s Square) late 1720s Oil on canvas, 68.6 x 112.4 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The most celebrated view painter of eighteenth-century Venice, Canaletto was particularly popular with British visitors to the…

Santa Maria della Salute (Venezia)

Consecrated: 1681 Address: Dorsoduro, 1, 30123 Venezia VE, Italia Website: https://basilicasalutevenezia.it/ La Salute in Art:   Canaletto (1697-1768) Canal Grande e Santa Maria della Salute c.1730 Museum of Fine Arts, Houston     Guardi, Francesco (1712-1793) La Punta della Dogana con S.…