View of the Grand Canal: Santa Maria della Salute and the Dogana from Campo Santa Maria Zobenigo
about 1743
Oil on canvas, Oil, Canvas
A wide canal scene in Venice features numerous gondolas and larger boats navigating the water, with grand buildings lining the banks and a large domed church dominating the skyline. Bernardo Bellotto was the nephew of Canaletto, a painter renowned for his idealized views of Venice. Together they produced many painted vistas for tourists who stopped in Venice on their Grand Tour of Italy. Grand Tourists would have purchased these types of paintings as souvenirs and reflections of their cultural sophistication. In this architectural record of Venice and the Grand Canal, Bellotto presented a cross-section of Venetian society going about business on a sunny morning. Light from the east falls upon the Palazzo Pisani-Gritti with its arched windows and painted façade. A Venetian devotional box that would have housed a
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