Antonio Canal (known as Canaletto) (1697-1768) (after)
Antonio Visentini (1688-1782) (engraver)
Plate I: Ex Ponte Rivoalti ad Orientem, usque ad Aedes Foscarorum, cui respondet Ripa Vinaria
[View from the Rivoalti Bridge to the east, all the way to the Foscarorum building, where one sees the bank of the winery]
Plate VII: Platea S. Stephani ad Meridiem [St. Stephani Plaza at Midday]
Plate 4 [sic]: Prospectus ab Aedibus Bemborum usque ad Grimanos Calergios nunc Vendrameno
[View of Bemborum building, all the way to Grimanos Calergios, now of the Vendrameno family]
Plate XII: Ex Fullonio usque ad Aedem S. Clarae ubi Canalis desini
[View from Fullonio, all the way to the S. Clarae building at the end of the canal]
from Urbis Venitiarum prospectus celebriores ex Antonii Canal
[Celebrated Views of the City of Venice after Antonio Canal ]
Giovanni Battista Pasquali, Venice: 1751
13.5 x 19.75 inches, overall
10.5 x 16.75 inches, image
Set of four plus title page
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Views of the City of Venice
Antonio Canal, 1751
Antonio Canal, 1751
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Four prints of views of Venice after the famous Italian painter Antonio Canal, known as Canaletto. The detailed views include not only buildings, but the bustling life of pedestrians in the streets and boats in the canals. These prints were originally part of a set of 38 engraved by Visentini.
Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal) was an Italian painter, etcher and draftsman, considered the most distinguished Italian view painter of the 18th century. He is best known for his views of Venice, where he spent most of his life. Some are based on actual scenes and some are capriccios, or imaginative composites of different places. Many of these painting were commissioned by patrons in England, as souvenirs of the Grand Tour. King George III purchased a large collection of Canaletto's works from Joseph Smith, who also arranged to have Canaletto's work published as engravings. The British Royal Collection has the largest group of his paintings and drawings to this day.
Antonio Visentini was an Italian painter, engraver, architect and theorist. At the end of the 1720s he was commissioned to produce a series of engravings of Canaletto's views of Venice by Joseph Smith, first published as Prospectus magni canalis Venetarium (1735), with an enlarged version published by Giovanni Battista Pasquali (fl. 1730-1790) as Urbis Venetiarum prospectus celebriores (1742-54). Visentini continued to work as an engraver for Pasquali into the 1750s, as well as completing commissions for other works, producing vignettes and illustrations.
References:
"Canaletto." The Grove Dictionary of Art. Online at Artnet.com. http://www.artnet.com/library/01/0136/T013627.asp (18 February 2004).