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CANALETTO: Grand Canal: Looking South-East from the Campo Santa Sophia to the Rialto Bridge

CANALETTO
🖼 Grand Canal: Looking South-East from the Campo Santa Sophia to the Rialto Bridge, c. 1756
Oil on canvas
119 × 185 cm
Berlin, Germany

Luminous water reflects architectural precision as the Grand Canal stretches toward the Rialto Bridge, rendered in meticulous detail with soft atmospheric perspective. Canaletto's vedute defined 18th-century Venice tourism, capturing the city's grandeur for wealthy collectors across Europe.

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