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Venice’s Piazza San Marco painted by Canaletto and Renoir – two artworks separated by a lot more than just time

Giovanni Antonio Canal (popularly known as Canaletto), an 18th century Venetian artist of the Rococo period, produced extensive, detailed and architecturally accurate ‘view’ paintings of Venetian and other landmarks. I recently saw a photograph of Canaletto’s remarkable painting The Piazza San Marco, Venice (1742-1746), which I discovered is just one of the artist’s many viewContinue reading “Venice’s Piazza San Marco painted by Canaletto and Renoir – two artworks separated by a lot more than just time”