This painting shows a grand, domed cathedral by a busy waterway. The dome and the surrounding white buildings are silhouetted against a blue sky with thin white and gray clouds. Gondolas and small boats drift across the water closer to us, with people dressed brightly in shades of red, yellow, brown, and gray. The water below the boats reflects the blue of the sky and the white of the buildings.
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Santa Maria della Salute

painter Francesco Guardi (Venetian, 1712 - 1793)

c. 1770

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 32.39 × 52.71 cm (12 3/4 × 20 3/4 in.) ; framed: 48.9 × 68.9 × 6.99 cm (19 1/4 × 27 1/8 × 2 3/4 in.)
Culture
Venetian
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CIS-B
Credit line
Corcoran Collection (William A. Clark Collection, 1926)
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed

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