Collection: Venetian View Painters

In the eighteenth century foreign travellers wanted to take Venice home with them, and painters painted it for them. These are the vedute, that is, portraits of real places, and the most famous of the painters who made them is Canaletto. But he was not alone: Luca Carlevarijs, before him, painted the ceremonies of the Republic; Michele Marieschi widened his perspectives like a wide-angle lens; Francesco Guardi, later, dissolved palaces and gondolas into light. Here you will find 20 views by them and by four of their contemporaries, from the Getty in Los Angeles, the Metropolitan in New York, the National Gallery in Washington and the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, printed on handmade Amalfi paper and framed by hand.

Carlevarijs, Marieschi and Guardi were among the leading names of “Lumières sur la Lagune”, the exhibition on Venetian view painting at the Hartford Fine Art Lampronti Gallery, in the Principality of Monaco, from 23 September to 6 November 2026. Start with Guardi's Feast of the Ascension, the Ascension Day fair in Piazza San Marco; then the doge's ship, the Bucintoro, setting sail in Carlevarijs's painting; and finally Marieschi's church of the Salute.