Wonderful view of Venice from the mid-18th century. Oil on canvas work of great pictorial quality, found in the lenticular rendering of the minute details of the landscape. Depicted is the most fascinating and important part of the city, in fact we are on the Grand Canal and see St. Mark's Square in all its splendor with the immense bell tower, as well as the splendid Doge's Palace. Elegant gondolas cross the Canal in a rarefied atmosphere of great charm. To obtain more truth than the human eye can, Venetian vedutisti, including Canaletto, used the "camera ottica". In a process similar to the camera obscura, rays of light were passed through a small hole inside a box. Once reflected on a sheet of paper, the artist would trace the image as if it were a drawing, a very detailed sketch that would later be used to make the actual painting. Magnificent non-coeval 19th-century frame in carved and gilded wood, highly decorative. Work that has been restretched and has undergone restoration with frame replacement and color restoration in a few small places. Overall in excellent state of preservation. Size without frame: 66 x 104 cm.
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PLATINUM Seller in Cuneo, Italy
