1768 (ca.), Francesco Guardi, Venice: the Rialto Bridge with the Palazzo dei Camerlenghi -- National Gallery of Ireland (Dublin)
From the museum label: The Rialto Bridge (1591) is at the heart of commercial Venice and was then the only bridge across the Grand Canal. To the right is Palazzo dei Camerlenghi (1525-28), from where the Magistrates ran the city's finances. Alongside it is the Fabbriche Vecchie di Rialto (1520s), where business is being conducted under the colonnade. Guardi had painted figurative subjects, before he took up veduta (view) painting in the 1760s. Here, he follows a composition by Canaletto from forty years earlier, painted on a similar, enormous, size, in contrast to the majority of Guardi's pictures. Small brushworks create a sense of flickering light. He dramatically frames the view by showing the, normally hidden, side of a building on the Grand Canal.
1768 (ca.), Francesco Guardi, Venice: the Rialto Bridge with the Palazzo dei Camerlenghi -- National Gallery of Ireland (Dublin)
From the museum label: The Rialto Bridge (1591) is at the heart of commercial Venice and was then the only bridge across the Grand Canal. To the right is Palazzo dei Camerlenghi (1525-28), from where the Magistrates ran the city's finances. Alongside it is the Fabbriche Vecchie di Rialto (1520s), where business is being conducted under the colonnade. Guardi had painted figurative subjects, before he took up veduta (view) painting in the 1760s. Here, he follows a composition by Canaletto from forty years earlier, painted on a similar, enormous, size, in contrast to the majority of Guardi's pictures. Small brushworks create a sense of flickering light. He dramatically frames the view by showing the, normally hidden, side of a building on the Grand Canal.