Venice from the Bacino di San Marco

The artwork

Great sails bent by the wind in the foreground, and beyond the boats, far off across the water, the Doge's Palace and the bell tower of San Marco. You receive it printed on handmade Amalfi paper, in a handmade frame.

• The blue of the sky, the dark green of the water, the white of the sails.
• A wide, luminous view that opens up an entrance hall or a living room.
• A gift for anyone who loves the sea and Venice.

The Bacino di San Marco is the great expanse of water in front of the Piazzetta, the place where for centuries ships arrived in Venice from all over the Mediterranean. Francesco Guardi (1712-1793), the last of the great Venetian view painters, places himself out on the water, among the boats of fishermen and merchants, and looks at the city from there.

In the distance, small and far away, is the Venice of the monuments: the Doge's Palace, where the doge, the head of the Republic, governed, and the bell tower of San Marco. In front, large and close, is the Venice of those who worked on the sea. Guardi painted the picture between 1765 and 1775, with quick brushstrokes that make the sails and the water tremble. It is a large canvas, more than one metre twenty by one and a half metres, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

In an entrance hall or a living room it brings the breath of the sea. A gift full of light for anyone who loves Venice.

Unique quality material

Print on handmade Amalfi paper
Sheet size: 29 x 42 cm (11.4 x 16.5 in)
With frame: 31 x 44 cm (12.2 x 17.3 in)
Material: artwork printed on very fine handmade Amalfi paper with deckled edges
Frame: dark brown with gold fillet, handmade, with glass