Venice: The Upper Reaches of the Grand Canal with S. Simeone Piccolo

作品描述

The Grand Canal with San Simeone Piccolo is a c.1740 landscape painting by the Italian artist Canaletto. Portraying a veduta of his native Venice, it depicts a view along the Grand Canal with the dome of San Simeone Piccolo prominent on the left and the Scalzi on the right. In the foreground fisherman are at work, with a gondola carrying two female passengers about to collide with their boat. The view was radically altered in the nineteenth century to construct the Venezia Santa Lucia railway station.