View of Piazza San Marco, Facing San Marco

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View of Piazza San Marco, Facing San Marco

1742

Antonio Visentini (Italian, 1688–1782) After a painting by Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal) (Italian (active Venice, Rome, and England), 1697–1768)

In 1735, Joseph Smith and Giovanni Battista Pasquali issued the first edition of a series of prints by the architect and etcher Antonio Visentini after Canaletto's paintings of the Grand Canal owned by Smith. The set was widely popular and a greatly expanded second edition was published in 1742 with additional views of the Grand Canal and of several major churches in the city. The prints served both as models for potential patrons to select a subject to be painted by Canaletto and as affordable alternatives to purchasing a painting by the artist (whose prices were notoriously high). Views of the Piazza San Marco, the main square in the city, were a favorite choice for Canaletto's clients.

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Object Details

Titles:

View of Piazza San Marco, Facing San Marco
From the series Urbis Venetiarum Prospectus Celebriores ex Antonii Canal. Part 3 of Prospectus Magni Canalis Venetiarum (Venice: Giovanni Battista Pasquali, 1742)

Date:

1742

Artists:

Antonio Visentini (Italian, 1688–1782) After a painting by Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal) (Italian (active Venice, Rome, and England), 1697–1768)

Medium:

Etching

Dimensions:

Plate: 10 13/16 x 17 1/16 inches (27.4 x 43.3 cm) Sheet: 14 3/8 x 20 9/16 inches (36.5 x 52.2 cm)

Classification:

Prints

Credit Line:

The Muriel and Philip Berman Gift, acquired from the John F. Lewis Collection given to the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1933 by Mrs. John F. Lewis, with funds contributed by Muriel and Philip Berman, gifts (by exchange) of Lisa Norris Elkins, Bryant W. Langston, Samuel S. White 3rd and Vera White, with additional funds contributed by John Howard McFadden, Jr., Thomas Skelton Harrison, and the Philip H. and A.S.W. Rosenbach Foundation

Accession Number:

1985-52-34346

Geography:

Made in Venice, Italy, Europe

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