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CANALETTO: View of the Bacino di San Marco (St Mark’s Basin)

CANALETTO
🖼 View of the Bacino di San Marco (St Mark’s Basin), 1730-35
Oil on canvas
54 × 71 cm
Milan, Italy

Golden light bathes Venice's famous basin, where gondolas and merchant vessels crowd the shimmering water before the Basilica di San Marco. Canaletto's precise perspective and luminous palette defined the veduta genre, making him the definitive painter of 18th-century Venetian pageantry.

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