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View of Venice, first state, 1500, Minneapolis Institute of Art. View of Venice, also known as the de' Barbari Map, is a monumental woodcut print showing a bird's-eye view of the city of Venice from the southwest. It bears the title and date "VENETIE MD" ("Venice 1500").
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.
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
The Peggy Guggenheim Collection is an art museum on the Grand Canal in the Dorsoduro sestiere of Venice, Italy. It is one of the most visited attractions in Venice. The collection is housed in the Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, an 18th-century palace, which was the home of the American heiress Peggy Guggenheim for three decades.
Room 14, Venice Forma Urbis, exhibits cartographical renderings of Venice, such as the famous bird's-eye view by Jacopo de' Barbari, and paintings, all exploring the city's birth and expansion. Rooms 15 and 16 display pieces related to the city's military power. The armors date from the 16th and 17th century, while the swords, knives, war clubs ...
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 ...
The Church of the Redentore, Venice c. 1740: Manchester Art Gallery: The Piazzetta 1740s: Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, Rome, Italy The Piazzetta 1740s: Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, Rome, Italy View of San Giuseppe di Castello 1740s: Private Collection A Palladian Design for the Rialto Bridge, with Buildings at Vicenza: 1740s
Compared to the Renaissance architecture of other Italian cities, in Venice there was a degree of conservatism, especially in retaining the overall form of buildings, which in the city were usually replacements on a confined site, and in windows, where arched or round tops, sometimes with a classicized version of the tracery of Venetian Gothic architecture, remained far more heavily used than ...