Giovanni Battista Brustolon after Canaletto, The Newly Elected Doge Presented to the People in San Marco (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...

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...

Some of the information known regarding the training and early years of this short-lived artist is to be found in Orlandi’s Abecedario Pittorico. Aside from that source, the earlie...