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MONET, Claude: The Palazzo Contarini

🖼 The Palazzo Contarini, 1908
Oil on canvas
73 × 92 cm
Potsdam, Germany

Shimmering reflections dissolve the Venetian palace's stone facade into rippling water and soft light. Monet captures the ephemeral moment where architecture becomes pure color and atmosphere, exemplifying Impressionism's radical break from representational tradition.

Monet. the Triumph of Impressionism
Monet. the Triumph of Impressionism
Daniel Wildenstein
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