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Canaletto: Venice: The Upper Reaches of the Grand Canal with S. Simeone Piccolo  wikidata:Q19660455 reasonator:Q19660455
Artist
Canaletto  (1697–1768)  wikidata:Q182664 q:it:Canaletto
 
Canaletto
Alternative names
Birth name: Giovanni Antonio Canal pseudonym: Il Canaletto
Description Italian painter, etcher, graphic artist and architectural draftsperson
Date of birth/death 7 October 1697 / 17 October 1697 / 18 October 1697 / 1697 Edit this at Wikidata 19 April 1758 / 10 April 1768 / 19 April 1768 / 20 April 1768 / 1768 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Venice Venice
Work period from 1716 until 1768
date QS:P,+1750-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P580,+1716-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P582,+1768-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Work location
Venice (1716–1719), Rome (1719), Vienna, Dresden, Venice (1720–1746), London (circa 1746–1756), Venice (circa 1756–1768)
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artist QS:P170,Q182664
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Title
Venice: The Grand Canal with S. Simeone Piccolo
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Genre Veduta Edit this at Wikidata
Description
English: Looking South-West from the Ponte degli Scalzi to the Fondamenta della Croce (left side in the background), with Chiesa degli Scalzi (right) and San Simeone Piccolo (left); one of Canaletto's most carefully conceived and executed large pictures, with control of lighting and perspectival effects and incidental details
Date circa 1740
date QS:P571,+1740-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 124.5 cm (49 in); width: 204.6 cm (80.5 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,124.5U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,204.6U174728
institution QS:P195,Q180788
Current location
2nd floor room 38 Canaletto and Guardi
Accession number
NG163
Object history
Credit line 1838: bequeathed by Lord Farnborough
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Source/Photographer Self-photographed
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Camera location45° 26′ 28.12″ N, 12° 19′ 21.92″ E Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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