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CANALETTO: Return of the Bucentoro to the Molo on Ascension Day

CANALETTO
🖼 Return of the Bucentoro to the Molo on Ascension Day, c. 1732
Oil on canvas
77 × 126 cm
Windsor, United Kingdom

Golden light floods Venice's Grand Canal as the ornate Bucentoro barge glides toward the Molo, surrounded by countless gondolas in meticulous perspective. Canaletto captures the Doge's ceremonial return with architectural precision and atmospheric detail, establishing veduta painting as essential to documenting Venetian civic pageantry.

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