File:Canaletto - Piazza San Marco looking west towards San Geminiano RCIN 405935.jpg

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Canaletto: Venice: Piazza San Marco towards San Geminiano  wikidata:Q19660610 reasonator:Q19660610
Artist
Canaletto  (1697–1768)  wikidata:Q182664 q:it:Canaletto
 
Canaletto
Alternative names
Birth name: Giovanni Antonio Canal pseudonym: Il Canaletto
Description Italian painter, etcher and drawer
Date of birth/death 7 October 1697 / 17 October 1697 / 18 October 1697 / 1697 Edit this at Wikidata 19 April 1758 / 10 April 1768 / 19 April 1768 / 20 April 1768 / 1768 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Venice Edit this at Wikidata Venice Edit this at Wikidata
Work period from 1716 until 1768
date QS:P,+1750-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P580,+1716-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P582,+1768-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Work location
Venice (1716–1719), Rome (1719), Vienna, Dresden, Venice (1720–1746), London (circa 1746–1756), Venice (circa 1756–1768)
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q182664
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Title
Piazza San Marco looking West towards San Geminiano Edit this at Wikidata
title QS:P1476,en:"Piazza San Marco looking West towards San Geminiano Edit this at Wikidata"
label QS:Len,"Piazza San Marco looking West towards San Geminiano Edit this at Wikidata"
label QS:Lde,"Venedig: Markusplatz nach San Geminiano"
label QS:Lpl,"Wenecja: Plac św. Marka w kierunku San Geminiano"
label QS:Lfr,"Venise: la place Saint-Marc vers San Geminiano"
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Genre Veduta Edit this at Wikidata
Description

On voit la Place Saint-Marc d'est en ouest quand on regarde vers l'ouest en direction de l'église San Geminiano(église Saint-Géminien). L'église San Geminiano était une église catholique de Venise, en Italie.

Here we see Piazza San Marco as we look from East to West, towards San Geminiano, which was a Catholic Church in Venice, Italy.
Date circa 1723
date QS:P571,+1723-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
-24
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions 134.6 x 173.0
institution QS:P195,Q1459037
Accession number
RCIN 405935 (Royal Collection) Edit this at Wikidata
Notes This is one of a set of six views of the Piazza San Marco and the Piazzetta, at the heart of Venice. The series may have been Canaletto’s earliest commission from Joseph Smith; from whom bought by George III
References Royal Collection (UK) ID: 405935 Edit this at Wikidata
Source/Photographer https://www.royalcollection.org.uk/collection/405935/piazza-san-marco-looking-west-towards-san-geminiano

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