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CANALETTO: Piazza San Marco: Looking East from the South West Corner

CANALETTO
🖼 Piazza San Marco: Looking East from the South West Corner, c. 1760
Oil on canvas
45 × 35 cm
London, United Kingdom

Golden light floods the Piazza San Marco as Canaletto renders the iconic basilica in precise linear perspective, with crowds animated throughout the sunlit square. This veduta exemplifies 18th-century Venice's artistic dominance, capturing the city's architectural splendor at its zenith before decline.

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