The Piazza San Marco in Venice

Canaletto, 1723 – 1724
The Piazza San Marco in Venice, Canaletto
The Piazza San Marco in Venice, zoomed in
141.5 cmThe Piazza San Marco in Venice scale comparison204.5 cm

The Piazza San Marco in Venice is an Oil on Canvas Painting created by Canaletto from 1723 to 1724. It lives at the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Spain. The image is in the Public Domain, and tagged Public Square and Cities. SourceDownloadSee The Piazza San Marco in Venice in the Kaleidoscope

Here, Canaletto fixes his earlier mistake, rendering the bell tower in the Piazza San Marco in Venice with all eight vertical windows. This is a larger canvas than we're used to seeing from Canaletto, whose mid-sized canvases were designed to be purchased while visiting Italy and easily transported home, a sort of 18th century postcard.

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