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CANALETTO: The Grand Canal

CANALETTO
🖼 The Grand Canal, 1728-29
Oil on canvas
45 × 73 cm
Florence, Italy

Golden light bathes Venice's Grand Canal in Canaletto's precise veduta, with gondolas and palaces rendered in crystalline detail. His topographically accurate cityscapes revolutionized landscape painting, establishing the veduta genre as essential to 18th-century Italian art and inspiring countless European Grand Tour commissions.

The story of art
The story of art
E. H. Gombrich
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