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The Stonemason's Yard (formally known as Campo S. Vidal and Santa Maria della Carità) is an early oil painting by Giovanni Antonio Canal, better known as Canaletto.It depicts an informal scene in Venice, looking over a temporary stonemason's yard in the Campo San Vidal set up for the construction of Andrea Tirali's facade of the church of San Vidal, and across the Grand Canal towards the ...
Canaletto's birthplace The Stonemason's Yard, painted c. 1725. He was born in Venice as the son of the painter Bernardo Canal, hence his mononym Canaletto ("little Canal"), and Artemisia Barbieri. [5] Canaletto served an apprenticeship with his father and his brother of a theatrical scene painter.
The very last building visible in the background of the painting is Palazzo Vendramin Calergi, partly cut off due to the canal's curve to the right. The painting also records the traghetto, a ferry service using row boats that was the primary means of crossing the Grand Canal prior to the construction of most of the bridges that span it today ...
Giovanni Antonio Canal, il Canaletto - Capriccio - The Grand Canal, with an Imaginary Rialto Bridge and Other Buildings - WGA03937.jpg: 1740: Galleria nazionale di Parma Venice. The Grand Canal with San Simeone Piccolo (1) 1740: The Wallace Collection, Manchester Square, England The Grand Canal with S. Simeone Piccolo (2) 1740: National Gallery ...
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The painting shows a fictitious scene with buildings by the Italian architect Andrea Palladio. The Palazzo Chiericati in Vicenza can be seen at the left edge of the picture, the building on the right is the Basilica Palladiana in Vicenza. The bridge is Palladio's project for the Rialto Bridge in Venice, which, however, was not executed.
Bacino di San Marco from the Puntana della Dogana is a 1740-1745 oil on canvas painting by Canaletto, now in the Pinacoteca di Brera in Milan. [1] It forms a pair with The Grand Canal looking towards Punta della Dogana from Campo Sant'Ivo (also in Pinacoteca di Brera [ 2 ] ), with both works produced in the artist's mature period just before ...
The painting offers a wider view of Whitehall in the mid-eighteenth century. On the right of the picture is the rear of Downing Street. It is also known by the longer title The Old Horse Guards from St James's Park. [2] Canaletto, best known for his paintings of his native Venice, had