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In standard versions, they appear as three lonely figures with a donkey, traversing hostile terrain or perhaps huddled under a tree in a storm.But not in 18th-century Venice!In the first room of ...
Although Venice was politically and economically spent by the beginning of the 18th century, in that century it nevertheless easily rivalled, if not surpassed, Paris and London in painting, music ...
Canaletto’s Venice was the 18th century’s most worldly and sensual city. In the last, decadent century of its independence, the old republic was all pageantry and intrigue.
The rediscovery of these works by Lama, a locally—if not yet internationally—known 18th-century artist whose expressive religious paintings are in churches across the Venetian lagoon, spurred ...
Lafayette 148's latest collection fuses fashion with the timeless beauty of an iconic 18th-century Venetian artwork. Model Arizona Muse showcases a velvet gown from the Lafayette 148 x Save Venice ...
Stroll through the second-floor galleries of London’s Wallace Collection and you’ll arrive at the Canaletto Room, named for the dozen or so expansive paintings by the 18th-century Venetian artist.
They’re now considered some of the great urban paintings, ever, and they distill our sense of early 18th-century Venice and London. Canaletto’s Return of the Bucintoro to the Molo on Ascension ...
"Eyewitness Views," an exhibition of 18th-century panoramas at the Cleveland Museum of Art, brings to life historical events in Rome, Venice, Naples and other cities in masterful paintings by ...