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CANALETTO: View of the Entrance to the Arsenal

CANALETTO
🖼 View of the Entrance to the Arsenal, c. 1732
Oil on canvas
47 × 78.8 cm

Golden light bathes Venice's Arsenal entrance, rendered in precise architectural detail with staffage figures animating the waterfront piazza. This veduta exemplifies Canaletto's mastery of perspective and atmospheric light, establishing the vedutista tradition that defined 18th-century Venetian painting.

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E. H. Gombrich
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