Santa Maria della Salute und die Riva degli Schiavoni in Venedig,

um 1736/38

Material / Technology / Carrier

Leinwand

Dimensions of the object

69 x 94 cm

Displayed

AP OG Saal XIIb

Department

Italienische Malerei

Genre

Malerei

Inventory number

WAF 138

Acquisition

Vor 1845 von König Ludwig I.aus dem Nachlass Antonio Canovas in Venedig erworben – seit 1923 Wittelsbacher Ausgleichsfonds

Stock

Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen - Alte Pinakothek München

Citation

Giovanni Antonio Canal (gen. Canaletto), Santa Maria della Salute und die Riva degli Schiavoni in Venedig, um 1736/38, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen - Alte Pinakothek München, URL: https://www.sammlung.pinakothek.de/en/artwork/ZMLJYnDxJv (Last updated on 15.07.2024)

This veduta is also dedicated to an architectural icon in the city on the lagoon. The confident handling of the foreshortened perspective of the Baroque church reveals that the painter never slavishly followed what he saw through the camera obscura he used as an aid.