The Entrance to the Grand Canal, Venice
The Entrance to the Grand Canal, Venice | |
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Artist | Canaletto |
Year | c. 1730 |
Medium | Oil on canvas |
Dimensions | 49.6 cm × 73.6 cm (19.5 in × 29.0 in) |
Location | Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston |
The Entrance to the Grand Canal, Venice, is a c. 1730 oil painting by Italian painter Canaletto. It is a Rococo landscape painting measuring 49.6 by 73.6 centimeters (19.5 in × 29.0 in) currently held as part of the Robert Lee Blaffer Memorial Collection in the Audrey Jones Beck Building at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, in Houston, Texas, and was a gift to the museum from Sarah Campbell Blaffer.[1] The large church at the left of the painting is the Basilica of Santa Maria della Salute. A variant of the painting with a larger church tower and an additional building is used as the Venetian screen in the 2001 video game Merchant Prince II.
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- ^ The Entrance to the Grand Canal, Venice, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
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- The Stonemason's Yard (1725)
- The French Ambassador's Arrival in Venice (1726–1727)
- The Entrance to the Grand Canal, Venice (1730)
- The Bucentaur Returns to the Pier at the Doge's Palace (c. 1730)
- The Grand Canal in Venice from Palazzo Flangini to Campo San Marcuola (1738)
- The Grand Canal and the Church of the Salute (c. 1740)
- Bacino di San Marco from the Puntana della Dogana (1740–1745)
- The Pra della Valle in Padua (1741–1746)
- London Seen Through an Arch of Westminster Bridge (1747)
- Old Horse Guards (1749)
- Westminster Abbey (1749)
- The Grand Walk, Vauxhall Gardens (c.1751)
- Northumberland House (1752)
- Walton Bridge (1754)
- Bernardo Canal (father)
- Bernardo Bellotto (nephew)
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