Giovanni Battista Brustolon after Canaletto, The Doge in the Bucintoro Leaving San Nicolò di Lido (1763/1766)

The festival of the Bucintoro was the subject of extensive commentaries by travellers and visitors who witnessed it. It was depicted over the course of the years by artists such as...

After religious and mythological painting, portraiture was the third most important area within Titian’s oeuvre. Around 80 works considered autograph now survive although we know f...

Canaletto is undoubtedly the most outstanding of the 18th-century Venetian view painters.View paintings or vedute depicting panoramic views of the city and its surrounding areas de...

Canaletto is undoubtedly the most outstanding of the 18th-century Venetian view painters. View paintings or vedute depicting panoramic views of the city and its surrounding areas d...

Bernardo Bellotto, Canaletto’s pupil and nephew, was together with his uncle one of the great painters of urban views. His repertoire of subjects, which was considerably larger tha...