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…
Consecrated: 1681 Location: Fondamenta Salute, 30123 Venezia La Salute in Art: Canaletto (1697-1768) Santa Maria della Salute s.d. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Canaletto (1697-1768) Canal Grande e Santa Maria della Salute c.1730 Museum of Fine Arts, Houston …
Turner, Joseph Mallord William (1775-1851) Venice, from the Porch of Madonna della Salute c.1835 Oil on canvas, 91.4 x 122.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Turner drew on his considerable experience as a marine painter and the brilliance…
Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari Founded: 1250 Completed: 1338 Location: San Polo, 3072 – 30125 Venezia Website: https://www.basilicadeifrari.it/ The high altar with Titian‘s Assumption. The choir by Marco Cozzi. The tomb of Canova, originally designed by him as a mausoleum for Titian.…
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Danae 1560–1565 Oil on canvas, 129.8 x 181.2 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid The first Poesie presented to Prince Philip were Danaë (1553, The Wellington Collection) and Venus and Adonis (1554, Museo del Prado, P422), versions of other…
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Danae c.1554 Oil on canvas, 120 x 187 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Danaë is one of five paintings that the master produced on the subject of the popular Greek myth. An oracle told King Acrisius that he…
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Danae 1544–1546 Oil on canvas, 118.5 x 170 cm Museo di Capodimonte, Napoli
