Canaletto · 1738
The Grand Canal, Venice
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Canaletto's signature Venice — gondolas threading the Grand Canal between Palazzo Flangini and Campo San Marcuola, palaces gleaming in the famously clear afternoon light. Getty Center.
Up to 14 × 8 in · landscape
Size
Larger sizes are unavailable for this painting because the source scan's resolution wouldn't print at gallery quality.
Format & finish
Archival cotton canvas stretched over a wooden frame. Ready to hang as-is. No external frame.
Scale next to a 5'10" person
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The story of The Grand Canal, Venice
The Entrance to the Grand Canal, Venice, is a c. 1730 oil painting by Italian painter Canaletto. It is a Rococo landscape painting measuring 49.6 by 73.6 centimeters currently held as part of the Robert Lee Blaffer Memorial Collection in the Audrey Jones Beck Building at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, in Houston, Texas, and was a gift to the museum from Sarah Campbell Blaffer. The large church at the left of the painting is the Basilica of Santa Maria della Salute. A variant of the painting with a larger church tower and an additional building is used as the Venetian screen in the 2001 video game Merchant Prince II.
Adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Canaletto
Giovanni Antonio Canal, commonly known as Canaletto, was an Italian painter from the Republic of Venice, considered an important member of the 18th-century Venetian school.
All Canaletto prints →Biography adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
