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Pietro Liberi (1605–1687), painter, active in Venice after 1643; Bernardino Licinio (c. 1489–1565), painter of Venice and Lombardy; Pietro Lombardo (1435–1515), architect and sculptor, active in Venice; Baldassare Longhena (1598–1682), architect, born and worked in Venice; Pietro Longhi (1701/2–1785), painter, born in Venice
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
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.
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 ...
Punta della Dogana is an art museum in one of Venice's old customs buildings, the Dogana da Mar.It also refers to the triangular area of Venice where the Grand Canal meets the Giudecca Canal, and its collection of buildings: the church of Santa Maria della Salute, (hence the area is also known as Punta della Salute), the Patriarchal Seminary of Venice, and Dogana da Mar at the triangle's tip.
Pinacoteca Querini Stampalia. The Pinacoteca Querini Stampalia is an art collection and museum in Venice, Italy. [1] Situated inside the Palazzo Querini Stampalia, in the sestiere of Castello, on the left bank of the Grand Canal, it includes famous paintings as a self- portrait and Adam and Eve by Palma Giovane, a Sacra Conversazione by Palma Vecchio and a Madonna and Child by Bernardo Strozzi.
The Museo Correr originated with the collection bequeathed to the city of Venice in 1830 by Teodoro Correr.A member of a traditional Venetian family, Correr was a meticulous and passionate collector, dedicating most of his life to the collection of both works of art and documents or individual objects that reflected the history of Venice.
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