Principali note della Piasa: Views of the Piazza San Marco and the Piazzetta
Canaletto & Visentini
Venice. Lodovico Furlanetto. c.1750
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The complete set of Visentini's 'Principali note della Piasa' after Canaletto - finely inked engravings with a silvery tone on sheets of fine laid paper that have been neither framed nor trimmed.
Each plate by Visentini after a painting by Canaletto in the collection of Consul Joseph Smith titled below the image and numbered I - IV in Roman numerals with the legend: 'Ex Tabula Antonii Canalis apud Iosephum Smithium / Apud Ludovicum Furlanetto Supra Pontem vulgo dictum dei Baretteri C. P. E. S. / Antonius Visentini del et sculpsit'. The plates were published by Lodovico Furlanetto and are individually titled as follows:
I. Plateae D. Marci Prospectus inter Publicam Bibliothecam et Ducalem Aulam. (Plate size: 422 x 582mm.; sheet size: 560 x 795mm.).
II. Plateae D. Marci Prospectus a Carceribus ad Monetam. (Plate size: 420 x 585mm.; sheet size: 545 x 770mm.).
III. Plateae D. Marci Prospectus inter Basilicam et Turrim. (Plate size: 425 x 582mm.; sheet size: 565 x 810mm.).
IV. Plateae D. Marci Prospectus ad Publicam Bibliothecam. (Plate size: 427 x 587mm.; sheet size: 565 x 795mm.).
The Venetian Antonio Visentini (1688 - 1782) was a noted painter and draughtsman as well as an architectural theorist and accomplished architect who is chiefly remembered as the engraver of a large number of works after paintings by Canaletto. Visentini met Consul Smith - already the leading proponent of Canaletto's paintings and an informal agent for their sale to Grand Tourists - in the early eighteenth century and this meeting led to a lifelong collaboration for both men, artistic as well as architectural. By the 1730s, Smith had employed Visentini to embellish his country house at Mogliano but had, more importantly, commissioned Visentini to engrave Canaletto's views of the Grand Canal, the first of a number of collections of engravings after Canaletto. Encouraged by Smith, Visentini increasingly turned to architecture and Palladio for inspiration, surveying the buildings of Venice for the Admiranda Urbis Venetae, remodelling Smith's palazzo and continuing to produce very high quality engravings after Canaletto.
Each plate by Visentini after a painting by Canaletto in the collection of Consul Joseph Smith titled below the image and numbered I - IV in Roman numerals with the legend: 'Ex Tabula Antonii Canalis apud Iosephum Smithium / Apud Ludovicum Furlanetto Supra Pontem vulgo dictum dei Baretteri C. P. E. S. / Antonius Visentini del et sculpsit'. The plates were published by Lodovico Furlanetto and are individually titled as follows:
I. Plateae D. Marci Prospectus inter Publicam Bibliothecam et Ducalem Aulam. (Plate size: 422 x 582mm.; sheet size: 560 x 795mm.).
II. Plateae D. Marci Prospectus a Carceribus ad Monetam. (Plate size: 420 x 585mm.; sheet size: 545 x 770mm.).
III. Plateae D. Marci Prospectus inter Basilicam et Turrim. (Plate size: 425 x 582mm.; sheet size: 565 x 810mm.).
IV. Plateae D. Marci Prospectus ad Publicam Bibliothecam. (Plate size: 427 x 587mm.; sheet size: 565 x 795mm.).
The Venetian Antonio Visentini (1688 - 1782) was a noted painter and draughtsman as well as an architectural theorist and accomplished architect who is chiefly remembered as the engraver of a large number of works after paintings by Canaletto. Visentini met Consul Smith - already the leading proponent of Canaletto's paintings and an informal agent for their sale to Grand Tourists - in the early eighteenth century and this meeting led to a lifelong collaboration for both men, artistic as well as architectural. By the 1730s, Smith had employed Visentini to embellish his country house at Mogliano but had, more importantly, commissioned Visentini to engrave Canaletto's views of the Grand Canal, the first of a number of collections of engravings after Canaletto. Encouraged by Smith, Visentini increasingly turned to architecture and Palladio for inspiration, surveying the buildings of Venice for the Admiranda Urbis Venetae, remodelling Smith's palazzo and continuing to produce very high quality engravings after Canaletto.
Four large engravings numbered I - IV in Roman numerals on untrimmed sheets of laid paper by Antonio Visentini after paintings by Canaletto.
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