A wooden bridge spans a body of water, connecting the banks of an imaginary landscape dominated by a ruined Renaissance arch and a pavilion. Not far away, a circular tower can be seen, while a boat carries a man wrapped in a cloak and a…
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Works and artists Ancient art Canaletto Eighteenth century Maritime Republics Venetian eighteenth century Venice
There was a day in the year when Venice stopped being a city and became a bride. It happened duringAscension Day: forty days after Easter, during the "Feast of the Sensa" ("Sensa" is Ascension in Venetian), the Serenissima donned her…
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The Canaletto painting that was going up for auction late this afternoon at Christie's in London was sold for over £30 million. It was a masterpiece, for which there was great expectation: the work, The Return of the Bucintoro on Ascension…
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From November 30, 2024 to March 30, 2025, the Complesso Monumentale di San Francesco in Cuneo will host an exhibition dedicated to 18th-century vedutismo: it's Canaletto, Van Wittel, Bellotto. The Grand Theater of Cities, organized by…
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The CRC Foundation and Intesa Sanpaolo present the exhibition Canaletto, Van Wittel, Bellotto. The Grand Theater of Cities. Masterpieces from the National Galleries of Ancient Art, open to the public from Nov. 30, 2024, to March 30, 2025…
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Works and artists Ancient art Canaletto Eighteenth century Vedutism
What a blow to old Luca Carlevarijs this story was. He had been in Venice for some time devoted to picturesque landscape painting and was therefore also the leading specialist in topographical veduta, a genre he cultivated with the merit…
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From Aug. 6 to Oct. 24, 2021, the special guest of the Giorgio Franchetti Gallery at Ca' d'Oro will be Canaletto 's veduta depicting Il Molo verso ovest with the Zecca and the column of San Teodoro from the Civica Pinacoteca of the…
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Exhibitions Ancient art Eighteenth century Piedmont Travel Turin
From February 23 to June 9, 2019, Venice will host, in the Doge'sApartment of the Doge's Palace, the exhibition Canaletto and Venice, an in-depth study that, starting from the great protagonist of the Venetian eighteenth century, Giovanni…
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