Tuesday, September 22, 2020

Venice

Yesterday I left off with a painting depicting Venice. Here we have another one. The Campo di Rialto And The Church Of Saint James is by Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal) and dates somewhere between 1740-60.


Here we emerge into a large, long gallery space with a wealth of paintings and sculptures. My favourite sculpture is at the far end. I slipped into a side gallery before taking in this area.


Anthony Van Dyck painted Let The Children Come To Me around 1618-20.


I had to photograph from the side with this one, as behind me was an opening into the interior courtyard. This is The Entombment by Peter Paul Rubens, done between 1612-14 by the master.

24 comments:

  1. Fabulous William, the gallery itself is beautiful, love the blue walls 💙

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  2. ...Venice is an amazing city which sadly is suffering from global warming.

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  3. The gallery is impressive as well.

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  4. The light in all of these paintings is wonderful!

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  5. What a beautiful art gallery. It's food for the soul.

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  6. It was a different world and the painters left us with something to see of that world.

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  7. Great photo documentation of the art era ~ ^_^

    Live each moment with love,
    A ShutterBug Explores,
    aka (A Creative Harbor)

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  8. Quite the works of art, such imagination.

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  9. Beautiful works of art. Great photos, William.

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  10. Hello

    Beautiful gallery and exhibit. Take care, enjoy your day!

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  11. @Francisco: thank you.

    @Grace: it certainly is.

    @Tom: that is true.

    @Marie: so do I.

    @Catarina: very much so.

    @RedPat: it is indeed.

    @Susie: that it is.

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  12. @John: quite so.

    @Red: that's true.

    @Carol: thanks!

    @Jennifer: definitely.

    @Bill: thank you.

    @Kay: it is, yes.

    @Eileen: thanks!

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  13. Liked the way Van Dyck packed the canvas with images and color.

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    1. I'll have similar views in tomorrow's post from the far end.

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  15. Absolutely LOVE the photo of the gallery.

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  16. I love that gallery -- and the thought you were there on your own. To have all that art to yourself without a huge crowd of others to look over. The walls are lovely.

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    1. I tend to prefer not to photograph other people when possible, and ideally to avoid such places when it's busy.

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