Giovanni Battista Brustolon after Canaletto, The Doge Attends the Giovedi Grasso Festival in the Piazzetta (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...

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...

Giambattista Piazzetta trained with the tenebrist painter Antonio Molinari (1655–1704), then continued his studies in Bologna in 1705 with Giuseppe Maria Crespi (1665–1747). Both a...