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CANALETTO: The Rialto Bridge from the South

CANALETTO
🖼 The Rialto Bridge from the South, c. 1735
Oil on canvas
69 × 92 cm
Florence, Italy

Venetian sunlight bathes the Rialto Bridge in luminous detail, with gondolas and figures rendered in precise perspective across the Grand Canal. Canaletto's veduta exemplifies 18th-century topographical painting, capturing Venice's architectural glory with documentary precision that satisfied wealthy collectors' hunger for exotic landscapes.

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