A View of the Piazza San Marco, Venice
Artist:
Francesco Zanin
(Italian, 1824 - 1884)
Culture: Italian
Date: 1866
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
29 x 43 1/2 in. (73.7 x 110.5 cm)
Credit Line: San Antonio Museum of Art, gift of Lenora and Walter F. Brown
Object number: 81.192.1
Signed: signed l.r. "Zanin Francesco 1866"
Provenance: Lenora Brown (1933-2020) and Walter F. Brown (1930-2014), San Antonio, by gift to San Antonio Museum of Art, 1981
Label Text
Francesco Zanin was an admirer of the great eighteenth-century Venetian painter Giovanni Antonio Canal, better known as Canaletto. Zanin's carefully executed paintings, including this meticulously rendered view of the Piazza San Marco in Venice, well illustrate his source of inspiration. Both artists strove to create vivid, topographical views in which architectural details take precedent. This genre of painting, known as vedute, was originated by sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Dutch artists who sought to make highly detailed and accurate views of cities.
(Regina Palm, 2024)
(Regina Palm, 2024)
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