Piazza San Marco
Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal)
late 1720s · Oil on canvas · European Paintings
The most famous view painter of eighteenth-century Venice, Canaletto was particularly popular with British visitors. This wonderfully fresh canvas depicts the city’s most emblematic location, the Piazza San Marco. Canaletto reduced the number of windows in the bell tower and extended the height of the flagstaffs, but otherwise he took few liberties. In fact, his meticulous documentation of a stage in the square’s paving between 1725 and 1727 helps date this painting.
- Artist
- Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal)
- Date
- late 1720s
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Department
- European Paintings
- Credit line
- Purchase, Mrs. Charles Wrightsman Gift, 1988
