Tag: Italia

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.…

Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari (Venezia)

Founded: 1250 Completed: 1338 Address: San Polo, 3072, 30125 Venezia VE, Italia Website: https://www.basilicadeifrari.it/ Monument of Titian. The tomb of Canova, originally designed by him as a mausoleum for Titian. Claudio Monteverdi’s tomb. Burials: • Canova, Antonio (1757-1822) • Monteverdi, Claudio (1567-1643) • Tiziano (c.1488-1576) See…

Danae (1560-1565)

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…

Danae (c.1554)

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…