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The Bacino di San Marco with the San Giorgio Maggiore
Canaletto·1726
Historical Context
This 1726 view of the Bacino with San Giorgio Maggiore, in Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, presents the great basin framed by Palladio's island church. The early date places this among Canaletto's formative works documenting the full circuit of Venice's most famous waterfront views. Canaletto's Venetian views were largely produced for British Grand Tour aristocrats facilitated by his agent Joseph Smith, later British Consul in Venice. He employed a camera obscura to achieve precise architectur...
Technical Analysis
San Giorgio's classical facade provides the compositional anchor across the broad basin. The early atmospheric handling gives the water surface a warm, luminous quality characteristic of Canaletto's pre-1730 work.
Look Closer
- ◆Notice San Giorgio's classical facade providing the compositional anchor across the broad Bacino in this early 1726 Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen view.
- ◆Look at the warm, luminous quality of the water surface characteristic of Canaletto's atmospheric pre-1730 work.
- ◆Observe the great basin framed by Palladio's island church in one of Canaletto's formative views documenting Venice's most famous waterfront.
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