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CANALETTO: Bacino di San Marco (St Mark’s Basin)

CANALETTO
🖼 Bacino di San Marco (St Mark’s Basin), 1738-40
Oil on canvas
125 × 204 cm
Boston, USA

Golden light bathes Venice's iconic basin, where gondolas and merchant vessels crowd the water before the Basilica's gleaming dome. Canaletto's precise perspective and luminous palette defined the veduta genre, establishing Venice as the era's most coveted painted subject for European collectors.

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E. H. Gombrich
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