id: 137224 accession number: 1962.169 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1962.169 updated: 2023-03-20 14:14:14.896000 Piazza San Marco, Venice, c. 1740. Attributed to Bernardo Bellotto (Italian, 1721–1780). Oil on canvas; framed: 164.5 x 264 x 12 cm (64 3/4 x 103 15/16 x 4 3/4 in.); unframed: 136.2 x 232.5 cm (53 5/8 x 91 9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 1962.169 title: Piazza San Marco, Venice title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1740 creation date earliest: 1735 creation date latest: 1745 current location: 217 Italian Baroque creditline: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund copyright: --- culture: Italy, 18th century technique: oil on canvas department: European Painting and Sculpture collection: P - Italian 18th Century type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Bernardo Bellotto (Italian, 1721–1780) - artist --- measurements: Framed: 164.5 x 264 x 12 cm (64 3/4 x 103 15/16 x 4 3/4 in.); Unframed: 136.2 x 232.5 cm (53 5/8 x 91 9/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review - 1962 opening date: 1962-10-24T04:00:00 Year in Review - 1962. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 24-November 25, 1962). title: Painting in Italy in the Eighteenth Century, Rococo to Romanticism opening date: 1970-09-19T04:00:00 Painting in Italy in the Eighteenth Century, Rococo to Romanticism. The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (organizer) (September 19-November 8, 1970); Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN (December 2, 1970-January 9, 1971); The Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH (February 7-March 21, 1971). title: Venice as City and Theater opening date: 1985-02-27T05:00:00 Venice as City and Theater. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 27-April 21, 1985). title: Bellotto and Canaletto. The Wonder of Light opening date: 2016-11-25T05:00:00 Bellotto and Canaletto. The Wonder of Light. Gallerie d'Italia - Piazza Scala, Milan, Italy (organizer) (November 25, 2016-March 5, 2017). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Catalogue of Pictures, Chiefly by the Old Masters of the Italian, Flemish and Spanish Schools, Birmingham (England), Society of Arts, 1833, cat. no. 112.
Art Treasures of the United Kingdom, Manchester, 1857, cat. no. 827.
British Institution, London, 1863, cat. no. 63.
Painting in Italy in the Eighteenth Century: Rococo to Romanticism, Chicago, Minneapolis, and Toledo, 1970-71, cat. no. 16, illus.
Gallerie d'Italia - Piazza Scala, Milan, Italy (11/25/2016 - 3/5/2017): "Bellotto and Canaletto. The Wonder of Light" catalogue number 15, p. 82-83 --- PROVENANCE William, 2nd Earl of Craven [1809-1866], Combe Abbey, Warwickshire date: by 1833 footnotes: citations: George Grimstone Craven, 3rd Earl of Craven [1841-1883], Combe Abbey, Warwickshire date: 1866-1883 footnotes: citations: William George Robert, 4th Earl of Craven [1868-1921], Combe Abbey, Warwickshire date: 1883-1921 footnotes: citations: Cornelia (nee Martin), Countess of Craven [1877-1961], Hamstead Marshall, Berkshire date: 1921-1961 footnotes: citations: (sale: Sotheby’s, London, November 29, 1961, no. 42 [as by Canaletto]; purchased by Faroni); date: 1961 footnotes: citations: Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1962- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: This view of the Piazza San Marco, Venice shows Bellotto's devotion to faithful observation. At the left is the church of St. Mark with the Doge's Palace just beyond, leading to the lagoon. Vertically dividing the canvas is the campanile (bell tower) with the Procuratie Nuove (a government building) extending to the right. At the extreme right, opposite St. Mark's, is the façade of the church of San Geminiano which was removed in the 19th century by Napoleon. The two wings of the Procuratie were then joined across the west end of the piazza. Bernardo Bellotto was the nephew and student of Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal, 1697–1768) who ran one of the most productive painting workshops in Italy. Like his uncle, Bellotto specialized in vedute (views) of Italy, especially Venice, which were purchased avidly by British aristocrats traveling on the Grand Tour. Bellotto later worked for the courts of Dresden, Vienna, Warsaw, and Munich, painting topographical and imaginary views of those cities. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Bellotti, Pietro, Canaletto, and Bożena Anna Kowalczyk. Bellotto and Canaletto: Wonder and Light. 2016. catalogue number 15 page number: 82-83 url: Cleveland Museum of Art, “Recent Acquisition Press Release,” July 20, 1962, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. page number: url: https://archive.org/details/cmapr0981 Cleveland Museum of Art, “Recent Acquisition Press Release,” July 25, 1962, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. page number: url: https://archive.org/details/cmapr0984 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 146 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n170 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 146 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n170 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 147 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n167 The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, Part 3: European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982. page number: Mentioned: p. 316-318; Reproduced: p. 317 url: Sims, Lowery Stokes. The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content, and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2006. page number: Mentioned: P. 23; reproduced: P. 25, fig. 5 url: Kowalczyk, Bożena Anna Bellotto and Canaletto: Wonder and Light. Exh. cat. Milan: Gallerie d'Italia. Milano: Silvana Editoriale, 2016. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 75, 82-83. no. 15; 273 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1962.169/1962.169_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1962.169/1962.169_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1962.169/1962.169_full.tif