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CANALETTO: Piazza San Marco with the Basilica

CANALETTO
🖼 Piazza San Marco with the Basilica, c. 1730
Oil on canvas
76 × 114.5 cm
Cambridge, USA

Golden light floods the grand piazza, with the Basilica's domes anchoring the composition while crowds animate the sunlit square. Canaletto's veduta captures Venice's architectural splendor with mathematical precision, establishing the genre that made him Europe's most sought-after cityscape painter.

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E. H. Gombrich
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