Canaletto

Venice vedute — the Grand Tour painter

The supreme painter of Venice. His vedute — topographically precise views of the Grand Canal, the Piazza San Marco, and the lagoon — are the visual record of eighteenth-century Venice at its most luminous. English Grand Tourists bought them by the dozen; today they define how we see the city.

Key works

• The Grand Canal from Campo San Vio~1723— Venice in crystalline light
  Various — National Gallery, London; Royal Collection; Ca' Rezzonico, Venice
• The Bucintoro Returning to the Molo~1730— Civic ceremony as panoramic spectacle
  Various — Royal Collection, Windsor; Pushkin Museum, Moscow

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