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MONET, Claude: The Rio della Salute

🖼 The Rio della Salute, 1908
Oil on canvas
81 × 65 cm
Potsdam, Germany

Shimmering Venice emerges through broken brushstrokes and soft lavender mist, with the Basilica di Santa Maria della Salute dissolving into atmospheric haze. Monet captures fleeting light effects on water, exemplifying his obsessive study of how color and reflection transform architectural form across changing conditions.

Monet. the Triumph of Impressionism
Monet. the Triumph of Impressionism
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