File:Giovanni Antonio Canal, il Canaletto - Piazza San Marco - WGA03883.jpg

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Canaletto: Piazza San Marco  wikidata:Q19660389 reasonator:Q19660389
Artist
Canaletto  (1697–1768)  wikidata:Q182664 q:it:Canaletto
 
Canaletto
Alternative names
Birth name: Giovanni Antonio Canal pseudonym: Il Canaletto
Description Italian painter, etcher, graphic artist and architectural draftsperson
Date of birth/death 7 October 1697 / 17 October 1697 / 18 October 1697 / 1697 Edit this at Wikidata 19 April 1758 / 10 April 1768 / 19 April 1768 / 20 April 1768 / 1768 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Venice Venice
Work period from 1716 until 1768
date QS:P,+1750-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P580,+1716-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P582,+1768-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Work location
Venice (1716–1719), Rome (1719), Vienna, Dresden, Venice (1720–1746), London (circa 1746–1756), Venice (circa 1756–1768)
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artist QS:P170,Q182664
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Title
Piazza San Marco
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Genre Veduta Edit this at Wikidata
Date late 1720s
date QS:P571,+1720-00-00T00:00:00Z/8
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 68.6 cm (27 in); width: 112.4 cm (44.2 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,68.6U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,112.4U174728
institution QS:P195,Q160236
Accession number
1988.162 (Metropolitan Museum of Art) Edit this at Wikidata
Credit line Purchase, Mrs. Charles Wrightsman Gift, 1988
Notes

Piazza San Marco, the principal square of Venice, was a subject Canaletto painted at least a dozen times in the 1720s and 1730s (Fahy 2005, pp. 59–60).

Canaletto's vantage point for this bird's-eye view was a window on an upper floor of the Procuratie Vecchie, slightly to the north of the center line of the piazza, where the Procuratie abutted San Geminiano, the small church that was demolished in 1807 to make way for the Napoleonic wing of the Palazzo Reale.
References Metropolitan Museum of Art: entry 435839
Metropolitan Museum of Art, Heilbronn, Timeline of Art history
Source/Photographer Web Gallery of Art:   Image  Info about artwork
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  • A virtually identical view appears in Le Fabriche e vedute di Venezia by Luca Carlevarijs (The Met, 57.618), an album of 104 etchings by Luca Carlevaris (1663–1730), which was published in 1703. While the foreshortening of the architecture is the same in both scenes, the cast shadows in the etching indicate early morning.
    A virtually identical view appears in Le Fabriche e vedute di Venezia by Luca Carlevarijs (The Met, 57.618), an album of 104 etchings by Luca Carlevaris (1663–1730), which was published in 1703. While the foreshortening of the architecture is the same in both scenes, the cast shadows in the etching indicate early morning.



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