“Canaletto à Venise”… at the Musée Maillol…

"Rialto Bridge from the South" by Canaletto...

The… exhibition…

Canaletto à Venise

At the… Musée Maillol

Under the patronage of…

The City of Venice

Pays homage to the city… with its first exhibition devoted exclusively to…

At the arched entrance of the Musée Maillol...Canalettos… Venetian works…

His paintings… capture the intense dazzling light of Venice… like no other painter…

He matched reality… with luminosity… of this legendary beauty… the city of ancient stone… peeling antique walls… surrounded by romantic… languid canals… creating a luminosity with a limpid… diamond azuré blue… crystal sharp atmosphere…

With the brilliant rays of the sun reflecting…

The… clarity…

The… glory…

Of this… sublime city…

Venezia

Giovanni Antonia Canal… (17 October 1697 – 19 April 1768)… known as…

Canaletto“…

Is the most famous of the Venetian landscape painters… “vedutisti“… of the 18th century…

The son of painter Bernardo Canal and Artemisia Barbieri

He followed in his father’s profession as theatrical set painter.

He was greatly inspired by the Roman “vedutista” Giovanni Paolo Pannini… where he started painting scenes of people’s daily life… in the city.

His early works… renowned for their accuracy… and being painted from nature rather than in a studio… are known to be his best…

With his innovative atmospheric effects and strong Venetian colours… his works can be said “to have anticipated Impressionism”.

"Ingresso al Canal Grande, con la Basilica della Salute" by Canaletto...

The “Canaletto à Venise exhibition… brings together more than 50 carefully selected works from the greatest museums and historic private collections…. and is designed to lead the spectator around his hometown Venice… through his paintings…

At the… Musée Maillol

Today…

Experiencing…

Canalettos

Exquisite… paintings…

We… were…

Transported… in time…

When… we…

“Stood”… as we did when we were in Venice… at…

Il Ponte di Rialto“…

Watching the romantic gondolas… with their gondoliers singing old Venetian songs…

Enjoying… the magnificent…

Piazza San Marco

Basilica di San Marco

Where we could palpate… the ethereal beauty through Canalettos paintings of…

Canaletto à Venise, at the Musée Maillol...This… precious city…

This… jewel…

This… Venice

Reflected… so handsomely…

In… Canalettos

Artwork… where…

Venice

Will… forever…

Live…

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