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Pietro della Vecchia (1603–1678), real name "Pietro Muttoni", painter; Paolo Veronese (1528–1588), one of the world's major painters, known for scenes from history and mythology; Andrea del Verrocchio (c. 1435–1488), real name "Andrea di Michele di Francesco de' Cioni", painter, sculptor and goldsmith
The Gallerie dell'Accademia is a museum gallery of pre-19th-century art in Venice, northern Italy.It is housed in the Scuola della Carità on the south bank of the Grand Canal, within the sestiere of Dorsoduro.
It was Swiny in the late 1720s who encouraged the artist to paint small topographical views of Venice with a commercial appeal for tourists and foreign visitors to the city. Sometime before 1728, Canaletto began his association with Smith, an English businessman and collector living in Venice, who was appointed British Consul in Venice in 1744.
The Mont-Saint-Michel Island, depicted in the famous painting of the same name by James Webb in 1857, is a famous tourist destination. Its history dates back to the 8th century. Bishop Aubert ...
The rest of Italy tended to ignore or underestimate Venetian painting; Giorgio Vasari's neglect of the school in the first edition of his Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects in 1550 was so conspicuous that he realized he needed to visit Venice for extra material in his second edition of 1568. [8]
Venice, from the Porch of Madonna della Salute; Venice, Santa Maria della Salute from San Giorgio; Venice, the Bridge of Sighs; Venice: The Dogana and San Giorgio Maggiore; View of Venice: The Piazzetta Seen from the Riva degli Schiavoni; View of the Cannaregio Canal
Ca' Rezzonico, Venice, Italy San Cristoforo, San Michele and Murano from the Fondamenta Nuove, Venice 1722–23: Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas, United States The Grand Canal in Venice with the Palazzo Corner Ca'Grande 1722–23: Gallery of Paintings of the Ancient Masters: Piazza di San Marco, em Veneza 1723: Instituto Ricardo Brennand ...
Ca' Rezzonico (Italian pronunciation: [ˈka (r)retˈtsɔːniko]) is a palazzo and art museum on the Grand Canal in the Dorsoduro sestiere of Venice, Italy.It is a particularly notable example of the 18th century Venetian baroque and rococo architecture and interior decoration, and displays paintings by the leading Venetian painters of the period, including Francesco Guardi and Giambattista ...