Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART: Piazza San Marco in Venice
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Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART
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Preferred Title:
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Piazza San Marco in Venice
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Image View:
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Detail, San Marco (St. Mark's) with street vendors in front on the piazza
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Creator:
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Canaletto (Italian painter, 1697-1768)
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Location:
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repository: Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza (Madrid, Madrid, Spain) Inv. no. 75 (1956.1)
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Location Note:
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Paseo del Prado, 8
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GPS:
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+40.416111-3.695
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Date:
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ca. 1723-1724 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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Italian
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Style Period:
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Eighteenth century
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Work Type 1:
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painting (visual work)
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Classification:
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Paintings
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Material:
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oil paint on canvas
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Technique:
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oil painting (technique)
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Measurements:
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141.5 cm (height) x 204.5 cm (width)
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Subjects:
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architecture; cityscape; Venice; Italo-Byzantine architecture; vedute; veduta
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Description:
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Canaletto was the leading painter of city views, or vedute, in eighteenth-century Venice. This early work, which nonetheless displays the most outstanding features of his style, depicts the most famous square in Venice from a high viewpoint, thus ensuring a broader frame for the composition. The horizontal line formed in the background by the façades of St. Mark’s and the Doge’s Palace contrasts sharply with the vertical thrust of the Campanile, while the Procuratie lining both sides of the square give depth to the perspective. (Source: Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum [website]; https://www.museothyssen.org/en/)
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Collection:
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Archivision Adjunct Module D: World Art
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Identifier:
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7A1-CANALETTO-TBM-PSM-A05
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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