1738
oil
canvas
From the collection of National Gallery of Victoria
Grand Canal looking north-east to the Rialto Bridge is a 1738 oil by Bernardo Bellotto, depicting Gondola, held at National Gallery of Victoria.
This painting shows a busy canal scene in Venice. There are many boats on the water, including gondolas. In the background, there's a big bridge and tall buildings on either side of the canal. The sky is light blue with some white clouds. The painting is very detailed, with many people in the boats and on the buildings. The artist used a lot of colors to make the scene look real. You can see the water moving and the buildings reflecting in it. This painting reminds me of another artist, Bernardo Bellotto.
Bernardo Bellotto, was an Italian urban landscape painter or vedutista, and printmaker in etching famous for his vedute of European cities – Dresden, Vienna, Turin, and Warsaw.
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