Antonio Visentini

Areae Majoris San Marci Prospectus ad Templum San Geminiani (Piazza San Marco Looking Towards San Geminiano)

Antonio Visentini's original etching, Areae Majoris San Marci Prospectus ad Templum San Geminiani" (Piazza San Marco Looking Towards San Geminiano) is a magnificent example his work and of of the great eighteenth century art of Canaletto. This original etching is printed upon wove paper and with full margins as published in Venice in 1735 for "Urbis Venetiarum Prospectus Celebriores ex Antonii Canal" (Celebrated Views of the City of Venice after Antonio Canal).

Areae Majoris San Marci Prospectus ad Templum San Geminiani
(Piazza San Marco Looking Towards San Geminiano)

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Title:	Areae Majoris San Marci Prospectus ad Templum San Geminiani (Piazza San Marco Looking Towards San Geminiano)
Engraver:	Visentini, Antonio (Venice, 1688 - 1782)
Designer:	Canaletto 'Giovanni Antonio Canal' (Venice, 1697 - 1768)
Date:	1735
Medium:	Original Etching
Note:	By the mid eighteenth century Canaletto (1697-1768) had established himself as Europe's greatest view-painter and etcher. The prime subject for both his paintings and etchings was, of course, Venice, and through his innovative art it became Europe's most famous city. As early as 1725 Canaletto created designs to be engraved by selected artists. His primary etcher was Antonio Visentini, who studied art under Canaletto. Antonio Visentini was also an architect and author of treatises on artistic perspective. Later in his career he assumed the post of Professor at the Venice Academy.
	Antonio Visentini was the sole engraver for Canaletto's first great series of views entitled, Urbis Venetiarum Prospectus Celebriores ex Antonii Canal. The series commenced around 1728 and was completed in 1735. Altogether thirty-eight etchings and engravings were printed. These works were divided into two parts; the first part dealing with views covering the Grand Canal to the Rialto and the second, with scenes of the city to the north to the Piazza San Marco. This original etching entiled Areae Majoris San Marci Prospectus ad Templum San Geminiani (Piazza San Marco Looking Towards San Geminiano) was one of the last works of art in the set and was thus created and published in 1735.
	In his etchings (either created or designed by him) and paintings, Canaletto set the standard. One scholar writes, “Even in its more mechanical phases his work is much more than a mere factual record; and by his unobtrusive skill in design, and his power of suffusing his work with light and air, he may justly be regarded as one of the precursors of 19th-century landscape painting.” * With its brilliant use of light and shade and wonderful observations of the people and animals depicted in the piazza, these words clearly apply to this original etching.
Source:	Urbis Venetiarum Prospectus Celebriores ex Antonii Canal (Celebrated Views of the City of Venice after Antonio Canal)
Reference:	* Ian Chilvers and Harold Osborne, The Oxford Dictionary of Art, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1997, p. 100.
Size:	10 7/8 X 16 7/8 (Sizes in inches are approximate, height preceding width of plate-mark or image.)
	Matted with 100% Archival Materials
Condition:	Printed upon wove paper and with full margins as published in Venice. Containing one slight pin-prick in the sky to the upper right, slight creasing and tape marks on the verso upper corners (well away from the actual image). Else a finely printed impression and in good condition throughout. Areae Majoris San Marci Prospectus ad Templum San Geminiani (Piazza San Marco Looking Towards San Geminiano) represents a prime, original example of the great eighteenth century art of Canaletto and Antonio Visentini.
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