How many times have we seen paintings of
Venice’s Piazza San Marco? Thousands of times.
Venice is a unique, labyrinthine, ghostly,
mysterious city… destination of thousands and thousands of tourists of the Grand Tour that wanted to take a piece of the city home as souvenir.
They had Canaletto, Guardi, Carlevarijs,
Marieschi, Ricci to satisfy their needs. The most famous one was undoubtedly:
Giovanni Antonio Canal, “Canaletto”. His fame went across the frontiers, his
vedute were and are known by everyobody and stay in our mind as THE image of
Venice.
Have we comtemplated them with enough
attention, though? Are they a copy of reality? Or a demonstration of his
virtuosity?
Today we’ll analyze a strange version of the
Piazza San Marco by this artist.
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suggest re-reading:
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Sources: Succi, D.-Delneri, A.
Canaletto: Una Venecia imaginaria. Madrid, Fundación Colección Museo
Thyssen-Bornemisza, 2001
Kowalczyk, B.A. Canaletto, prima
maniera. Milano, Electa, 2001
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