In Venice of the XVIII century were popular guides, that is, images of urban species. This tradition originated in the art of the fifteenth century artists Gentile Bellini and Vittore

Antonio Canal is an Italian painter, one of the greatest craftsmen who portrayed everyday urban landscapes. He worked in Venice, Rome, and London, where he was elected a member of

Venetian master of landscape painting, the founder of the genre, as the leading, Canaletto wrote his city more often. The more valuable are the occasional appearances in his work of

His Venetian career Antonio Canaletto started as a theatrical decorator, following the well-trodden father, also the theatrical artist, Bernardo Canal, the road. It is known that the painter used a

The view of the city backyard is almost nonsense for Canaletto’s creativity, and yet – before us is the recognized masterpiece of the artist. “The yard of the stonemason” he

This church has not only fallen into the “heroes” of Canaletto’s paintings. In the presented work breathes the spirit of Venice – with its canals, buildings, storing the memory of