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GUARDI (Francesco)
(1712-1793)
69. — St. Mark’s Place, Venice
View looking across the Piazza towards the Campanile and St. Mark’s church, in front of which a fair is going on; a multitude of people are thronging round the tents and booths and a theatre erected for the occasion. In the foreground on the left arc a group of four figures — three gentlemen and a lady — in conversation ; on the right, two ladies and a gentleman also conversing, and numerous other figures distributed about the square. Full sunlight falls from the left on the square and the row of buildings on the left of the composition.
Canvas, 32 in. by 44 1/2 in.
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