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Description: | The painting on the lid is 'A Regatta on the Grand Canal'. The regatta was an annual carnival event in Venice from the 14th century onwards. While regattas were sometimes held in honour of distinguished visitors, the regatta in the painting appears to be the annual carnival event. The pavilion at the left is a temporary structure from which the prizes were presented. It bears the arms of the Doge Alvise Pisani, who ruled from 1735 to 1741. The painting on the front is 'The Stonemason's Yard', which is considered one of Canaletto's finest works. The view is one across the Campo (small square) St. Vidal, looking over the Grand Canal to the church of St. Maria della Carità (Saint Mary of Charity). The square has been temporarily transformed into a workshop for repairing the nearby church of St. Vidal. The blocks of Istrian stone were brought by water to the square. The campanile (bell-tower) of the church of S. Maria della Carità on the far side of the Grand Canal collapsed in 1744, after the painting was made, and was not rebuilt. Both paintings are in the National Gallery - a source which was often resorted to by biscuit tin designers. Canaltto paintings also feature on the 'Venice' tin of 1958-1959. | Format: | image/jpeg | License: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_sitetext%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&cms_con_core_subtype%3acms_con_text_what=copyright&%3acms_sys_group=%22sopse%22 | Publisher: | Huntley & Palmers | Rights holder: | Reading Borough Council (Reading Museum Service) | Subjects: | townscape Giovanni Antonio Canaletto gondola building environment transport river | Temporal: | start=1977-01-01; end=1977-12-31; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Creator: | Not known | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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