1740
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Dominant colour
Views: The Portico with the Lantern is a 1740 by Canaletto, a Baroque work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
This black-and-white sketch shows a quiet courtyard framed by two tall trees. A stone archway and a hanging lantern sit above a small group of people gathered near a building with open windows. The walls are rough, and the ground looks uneven, with a few scattered plants. The artist used fine lines to show details like the texture of the walls and the folds in people’s clothes. This kind of careful drawing was common in the 1700s. Next, check out *chiaroscuro* to see how artists used light and shadow in their work.
Giovanni Antonio Canal (18 October 1697 – 19 April 1768), commonly known as Canaletto (Italian: ), was an Italian painter from the Republic of Venice, considered an important member of the 18th-century Venetian school.
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