Venetian school of the XVIII century View of Santa Maria della Salute from the Grand Canal.

Venetian school of the XVIII century
View of Santa Maria della Salute from the Grand Canal.
Oil on canvas, relined.
Measurements: 19 x 29 cm; 26 x 37 cm (frame).
It is a painting framed in the tradition of the Venetian vedutismo, whose history begins in the XVIII century, although it has antecedents that go back until the second half of the XV century. Proud of its power, the city then considered queen of the Mediterranean due to its commercial contacts reinforced it through a true visual propaganda. With the precise and opportunely idealized representation of the scene of so many historical and legendary episodes, it consolidated a myth destined to endure over time, even if in the 18th century there were only shaky foundations left to support it.