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  Worldvisitguide > Places > National Gallery > Italian Painting > Canaletto and Guardi > Venice : Piazza San...
Venice : Piazza San Marco

Date : near 1760

Dimensions : 119 cm x 72 cm
Material : Oil on canvas
Acquisition : Bequeathed by Richard Simmons (1846)
National Gallery
Canaletto and Guardi
Main Building - First Floor - Section 38
Item 8 on 9
Italian Painting
Painting (Landscape)

Area related
Venise (Italy)


Description   

This view shows the main square of Venice from the west. At the far end is the façade of Saint Mark's basilica and its bell-tower. On the left and right are the administrative buildings of the Procuratie Vecchie and Procuratie Nuove.

The painting is one of the earliest of Guardi's works as a view painter, probably dating from about 1760.

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Paysage urbain
Francesco Guardi
near 1775

J. Paul Getty Museum :
European Paintings 1700-1800
The Bucintoro Departing from the Bacino di San Marco
Scène extérieure
Luca Carlevarijs
1710

Los Angeles County Museum of Art :
Italy
Piazza San Marco Looking South and West
Paysage urbain
Antonio Canal (Canaletto)
1763

Louvre Museum :
La Fête à Venise
Le Môle, vu du bassin de San Marco
Paysage
Antonio Canal (Canaletto)
Dimensions : 47 cm x 81 cm
approx. from 1730 to 1735
Le palais des Doges de Venise vu du bassin de San Marco
Paysage
Francesco Guardi
Dimensions : 43 cm x 68 cm
approx. from 1780 to 1790
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