Title

Piazza San Marco, Venice, 1780s. Creator: Francesco Guardi (Italian, 1712-1793).

Caption

Piazza San Marco, Venice, 1780s. The plaza known as the Piazza San Marco in Venice was as popular among tourists in the 1700s as it is today, and the painter Francesco Guardi provided the wealthiest of these visitors with both painted and drawn souvenirs of it. The Cleveland drawing is one of a number that depict the same view, showing the façade of the Basilica of San Marco at the far end, the campanile (bell tower), and the Procuratie Nuove, the building seen in perspective at the right. Guardi chose a late afternoon scene with the western sun bathing the right half of the square in sunlight and people taking leisurely strolls.

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Reference

HRM19F99_051

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Property release

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License type

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Available size

8,2Mb (1,1Mb) / 6,8in x 4,6in / 2048 x 1391 (300dpi)

Keywords

Italy Italian Venice drawing 18th century Francesco Guardi The Cleveland Museum of Art Heritage Art Drawing pen and brown ink Francesco Guardi (Italian 1712-1793) framing lines in brown and black ink brush and brown wash pen and brown ink brush and brown wash with brush and gray wash (possibly chalk) and traces of black chalk framing lines in brown and black ink with brush and gray wash 1712-1793 possibly chalk and traces of black chalk