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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 ...
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
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.
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 ...
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 (19.5 in × 29.0 in) 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 ...
The Bucentaur Returns to the Pier at the Doge's Palace or The Doge of Venice Departs for the Festival of the Betrothal of Venice to the Adriatic Sea is a c.1730 oil on canvas painting by Canaletto. It was acquired together with his Reception of the French Ambassador in Venice in the 1760s for the Hermitage Museum .