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Date : 1740
Sizes : 1.83 m x 1.22 m
Material : Oil on canvas
Acquisition : Bequeathed by Lord Revelstoke (1929)
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Italian Painting
Painting
Area related
Venise (Italy)
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This work and its companion piece, "A Regatta on the Grand Canal", are among the grandest views of Venice that Canaletto made.
The painting is a view towards the Doge's Palace on the right, with Santa Maria della Salute and the entrance to the Grand Canal on the left. It shows the annual ceremony which symbolized the marriage of Venice to the sea. The Doge is leaving his palace; his golden parasol can be seen in the crowd. He will be rowed out to sea in his state barge, the "Bucintoro" (moored at the quay), so that he can throw a gold ring into the Adriatic.
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