This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 Excerpt: ...of the Adriatic, Bridge of Sighs, Ducal Palace, and Custom House, Venice--Canaletti Painting. This was one of the Vernon Collection, and is now in the National Gallery. It is not at all the vague Dream City of his later time; but a rather matter-of-fact, topographical sort of a view, as though it were intended to rival ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 Excerpt: ...of the Adriatic, Bridge of Sighs, Ducal Palace, and Custom House, Venice--Canaletti Painting. This was one of the Vernon Collection, and is now in the National Gallery. It is not at all the vague Dream City of his later time; but a rather matter-of-fact, topographical sort of a view, as though it were intended to rival the painter who is represented at work on a raft on the left. It does not strike one as a great success, partly, no doubt, because of the straight line of the Ducal Palace, which runs right across the composition in the most prosaic way, just as though it were a builder's plan, except that the builder would have drawn his walls upright. Of course the picture is a blend of at least two different points of view, St. Marc's is painted as it appears from the Baccino in front of St. Giorgio Maggiore, whilst the Dogana di Mare is evidently drawn from a spot some way up the Giudecca Canal. The effect, too, is rather commonplace, blue sky overhead, and the building in a kind of half sunlight. There was also the Ducal Palace, Venice, a view looking across the Piazetta, and introducing the two columns of St. Marc and St. Giorgio. Then there was a subject evidently painted at the time he was illustrating the "Rivers of France"--Mouth of the Seine Quelle bceuf. "This estuary is so dangerous from its quicksands, that any vessel taking the ground, is liable to be stranded and overwhelmed by the rising tide, which rushes in in one wave" Beside these, there were three Netherland subjects the Rotterdam Ferry Boat, Van Goyen looking out for a Subject; and Van Tromp returning after the Battle of the Dogger Bank. This year Finden's Landscape and Portrait Illustrations to the "Life and Works of Lord Byron," was published. There were ...
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