Bernardo Bellotto / Piazza San Marco, Venice / c. 1740

Bernardo Bellotto
Piazza San Marco, Venice
c. 1740
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Creator Name: Bellotto, Bernardo
Creator Qualifier: Attributed to
Creator Nationality: European; Southern European; Italian
Creator Role: Artist
Creator Dates/Places: 1721 - 1780
Gender: M
Creator Name-CRT: Bernardo Bellotto
Title: Piazza San Marco, Venice
Title Type: Primary
View: Full View
Creation Start Date: 1735
Creation End Date: 1745
Creation Date: c. 1740
Object Type: Paintings
Materials and Techniques: oil on canvas
Dimensions: Unframed: 136.2cm x 232.5cm
AMICA Contributor: The Cleveland Museum of Art
Owner Location: Cleveland, Ohio, USA
ID Number: 1962.169
Credit Line: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund
Rights: http://www.clemusart.com/museum/disclaim2.html
Provenance: Earl of Craven, Combe Abbey, Warwickshire (1833, London sale 1961); (M. H. Drey, London)
Context: This view of the Piazza San Marco, Venice shows Bellotto's devotion to faithful observation. At the left is the church of St. Mark with the Doge's Palace just beyond, leading to the lagoon. Vertically dividing the canvas is the campanile (bell tower) with the Procuratie Nuove (a government building) extending to the right. At the extreme right, opposite St. Mark's, is the façade of the church of San Geminiano which was removed in the 19th century by Napoleon. The two wings of the Procuratie were then joined across the west end of the piazza.Bernardo Bellotto was the nephew and student of Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal, 1697?1768) who ran one of the most productive painting workshops in Italy. Like his uncle, Bellotto specialized in vedute (views) of Italy, especially Venice, which were purchased avidly by British aristocrats traveling on the Grand Tour. Bellotto later worked for the courts of Dresden, Vienna, Warsaw, and Munich, painting topographical and imaginary views of those cities.
AMICA ID: CMA_.1962.169
AMICA Library Year: 2000
Media Metadata Rights: Copyright, The Cleveland Museum of Art

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