Venetian school; second half of the 18th century. "Saint Mark of Venice". Ink drawing.

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  Venetian school; second half of the 18th century. "Saint Mark of Venice". Ink drawing. Presents rust stains. Size: 14.5 x 20 cm; 40 x 45 cm (frame). Ink drawing inscribed in a border, inside which you can see a view of the Cathedral of San Marco in Venice. The work is of great interest, because the artist has shifted the perspective, placing the viewer's view from the left, and allowing to see a larger section of both St. Mark's and the adjacent building, the Doge's Palace of Venice. The work is part of the tradition of Venetian vedutismo, whose history begins in the eighteenth century, although it has antecedents dating back to the second half of the fifteenth century. Proud of its power, the city then considered queen of the Mediterranean due to its commercial contacts reinforced it through a true visual propaganda. With the precise and opportunely idealized representation of the scene of so many historical and legendary episodes, a myth was consolidated that was destined to endure over time, even if in the 18th century only shaky foundations remained to support it. On the other hand, the creation of the genre was also based on the influence of the Nordic painters who settled in Italy in the 16th century, many of them specialized in landscape painting (unlike the Italians, who concentrated mainly on the human figure). The new trend would soon become popular in Italy as well, although for the time being it remained confined to a minor genre. These Dutch and Flemish painters, settled in Rome, will produce views characterized by admiration and nostalgia for the beauty of the classical city, combined with the analytical description of details, typical of the Flemish tradition, which will eventually be inherited by the Vedutists. However, they are still views in which the urban setting is subordinated to a narrative episode. The term "vedutismo" itself defines a pictorial genre based on the representation of places in which buildings are present, sometimes populated by a more or less numerous number of characters. Therefore, the protagonist of the painting is the urban landscape, always represented according to the laws of perspective.
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