File:Piazza San Marco with the Basilica, by Canaletto, 1730. Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge.jpg

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Summary

Canaletto: Piazza San Marco, Venice

Artist



Alternative names	Birth name: Giovanni Antonio Canal pseudonym: Il Canaletto
Description	Italian painter, etcher and drawer
Date of birth/death	7 October 1697 / 17 October 1697 / 18 October 1697 / 1697	19 April 1758 / 10 April 1768 / 19 April 1768 / 20 April 1768 / 1768
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)
Authority file	: Q182664 VIAF: 88652637 ISNI: 0000000121428397 ULAN: 500115269 LCCN: n79065963 NLA: 36246904 WorldCat

Title

Piazza San Marco

Object type

painting

Genre

Veduta

Date

between circa 1730 and circa 1734

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

height: 76 cm (29.9 in); width: 118.8 cm (46.7 in)

Collection

Fogg Museum

	Native name	Fogg Art Museum
	Parent institution	Harvard University
	Location	Category:Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
	Coordinates	42° 22′ 30.29″ N, 71° 06′ 52.26″ W
	Established	1895
	Website	http://www.harvardartmuseums.org
	Authority file	: Q809600 VIAF: 132449533 ISNI: 0000000406087397 ULAN: 500265900 LCCN: n79105958 NLA: 35091307 WorldCat

Harvard Art Museums

Current location

2^nd floor, room 2220 European and American Art, 17th–19th century, Rococo and Neoclassicism in the Eighteenth Century

Accession number

1943.106

Place of creation

Italy

Object history

1920: in collection of Arthur Joseph Sulley
1942: in collection of Grenville Lindall Winthrop

References

Source/Photographer

2. Harvard Art Museums
1. Web Gallery of Art:

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	23:49, 12 January 2019	2,379 × 1,516 (514 KB)	Oursana	Reverted to version as of 13:48, 27 May 2016 (UTC)
	02:15, 19 September 2017	2,400 × 1,534 (538 KB)	Oursana	Reverted to version as of 05:12, 16 February 2016 (UTC)
	13:48, 27 May 2016	2,379 × 1,516 (514 KB)	Alonso de Mendoza	Cropped 1 % horizontally and 1 % vertically using CropTool with precise mode.
	05:12, 16 February 2016	2,400 × 1,534 (538 KB)	Oursana	source:http://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/304349?position=1
	18:14, 11 November 2005	1,214 × 770 (156 KB)	Jon Harald Søby	Originally uploaded to en: by en:User:Calsicol at July 13, 2005, with the following description: ---- ''Piazza San Marco with the Basilica'', 1730. A Venitian scene by en:Canaletto. Original at the en:Fogg Art Museum