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Description: | Michele Marieschi, like Canaletto, began his career as a theatre and prospect painter. He was successful in selling his pictures to the important art patron, Field Marshal Schulenburg and through him met Francesco Guardi, who it is believed was responsible for painting staffage figures in many of Marieschi's pictures. This view of St Mark's, Venice, is an impressive display of the laws of perspective employed in the convincing representation of an expansive architectural space. He painted this same view several times, changing only small details such as the figural groups. He often included the small theatre seen here in the left foreground. | Subjects: | Venice) place (Piazza San Marco | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Marieschi, Michele Giovanni (Italian painter and engraver, 1696-1743) Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8826... | Go to resource |
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