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Bacino di S. Marco: From the Piazzetta
(c. 1750)
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Measurements
- 131.4 × 163.2 cm
- Accession Number
- E1-1986
- Department
- International Painting
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1986
© Public Domain
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- 17th to 18th Century European Paintings Gallery
Level 2, NGV International - About this work
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Canaletto’s views of Venice were disseminated widely in Europe as both paintings and prints, which he produced primarily for the developing tourist market in Italy, and particularly for wealthy Englishmen on the Grand Tour of the Continent. This painting is one of four views of Venice that were commissioned from Canaletto by William Holbech, for the dining room of his family home, Farnborough Hall, in Warwickshire. Holbech had spent fifteen years in Venice and knew Canaletto well.
- Subjects (general)
- Cityscapes Human Figures
- Subjects (specific)
- boats Canal Grande (canal) columns (architectural elements) Italy (nation) piazzas (squares) Saint Mark's Basin (basin) statues Venice (inhabited place)