![Canaletto - Piazza San Marco [late 1720s] by Gandalf's Gallery](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_tHvIy3FITwJHfivQU7fZU30p19JmFftsM-eV1xYjokqgQPZ0avfzRYe4A_4axTraRg99XDt4Nuz5_HjBqP4B90NyxNIHVj7LWs453fDe7mWOOjfHI-GP_Bl3XgKZtkkw=s0-d)
The most famous view painter of eighteenth-century Venice, Canaletto was particularly popular with British visitors to the city. This wonderfully fresh and well preserved canvas shows the square of San Marco. The windows of the bell tower are fewer in number than in actuality, and the flagstaffs are too tall, but otherwise Canaletto took few liberties with the topography. The loose, ragged handling and high key suggest a date in the late 1720s.
[Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York - Oil on canvas, 68.6 x 112.4 cm]
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