This story appears in the May 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. Grand Canal barges have no fancy names, no mermaids planted on the bow, no corny sayings painted on the stern. Instead ...
The Grand Canal with San Simeone Piccolo (1737) looks north-east towards the district of Cannaregio and offers a daytime scene of the famed Venetian thoroughfare, one flanked on the right-hand ...
Specialists at the Wallace Collection in London have attributed an 18th-century work depicting the Grand Canal in Venice to Bernardo Bellotto, the nephew and pupil of the famed Venetian view artis ...