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Description: | The Bucintoro, or State barge of Venice, was used by the Doge and the members of the Senate to attend the ceremony of the 'Sposalizio del Mare'. The symbolic marriage of the Venetian Republic to the Adriatic Sea, which was celebrated annually on Ascension Day, is the subject of this painting. While the Doge's barge prepares to tie up, seven gondolas propelled by men in livery gather nearby, waiting to collect the ambassadors whose ensigns they bear. The carved gondola in the foreground bears the arms of the King of France, whose ambassador probably commissioned this picture from Canaletto. | Subjects: | place (Venice) | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Canaletto (Italian painter, 1697-1768) Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=9050... | Go to resource |
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