<I>La Libreria a Venise</I>
name: label: graphic artist
content: Canal, Giovanni Antonio
notes: label: Description
content: Giovanni Antonio Canal (1697–1768), known as Canaletto, etched this view of Venice featuring the Library of St. Mark and the Piazzetta in the 1740s. The Library was designed by Jacopo Sansovino (1486–1570), who is credited with bringing the High Renaissance style to Venice. Many travelers were interested in Renaissance and Baroque architecture, as well as the ruins of ancient Rome. Canaletto's views appealed especially to wealthy 18th-century British visitors who came to Venice on the Grand Tour. Americans also visited Italy and collected prints to remind them of places seen.
label: Description
content: Canaletto specialized in paintings of Venice, many of which show well-known landmarks. He also made a series of etchings. Some depict actual sites, as this one does, while others show invented landscapes. The Museum's set of Canaletto's Venetian etchings was received as a gift from Mabel Brady Garvan, who, with her husband Francis P. Garvan, built an important collection of American paintings, furniture, and decorative arts that is now at the Yale University Art Gallery.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Place Made
content: Italy: Venetan, Venice
topic: label: Subject
content: Architecture
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content: Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
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content: Engineering, Building, and Architecture
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: The Etchings of Canaletto
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Mrs. Francis P. Garvan
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: GA.21847
label: catalog number
content: 21847
label: accession number
content: 257503
objectType: label: Object Name
content: print
label: Object Type
content: Etching
label: Other Terms
content: print; Intaglio; Etching
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: sheet: 19.8 cm x 27.3 cm; 7 13/16 in x 10 3/4 in
label: Measurements
content: image: 14.2 cm x 20.7 cm; 5 9/16 in x 8 1/8 in