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Pair Venice Watercolors Venetian Painting Scenes Signed browse these categories for related items... All Items: Fine Art:Paintings:Watercolor: Pre 1930: item # 967809 Please refer to our stock # 3596 when inquiring.
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Two original watercolors of Venice; one of a gondola anchored in an interior canal, the Rio di Palazzo, just beneath a covered limestone bridge above, with stone bars on the windows, called the "Bridge of Sighs," or in Italian, "Ponte dei Sospiri," built in 1600, connecting the Doge's Palace to the old prisons, and is said to be the "last view of beautiful Venice seen by the prisoners," a name given to the bridge by Lord Byron in the 19th Century. The other, is a view of San Marcos Square, or in Italian, "Piazza San Marco," particularly St. Mark's Basilica, from the water, with gondolas in the foreground. St. Mark's was constructed in it's near-present state in 1063, and has a 200-year history prior to that, of rise and fall. Each painting measures about 5.50" x 8.50", matted and framed to 10" x 12.50". The paintings are both on clearly watermarked paper, "M. Fabriano," a city in Italy historically famous for its fine quality paper-making, and the oldest paper mill in Europe, since 1267. It is said to have been "the paper of Michelangelo, Raphael, Durer, and Goya, and that some of their works can today be seen, as testament to the paper's duration." In addition, each painting contains an insert of red paper with a foil label, likely an identification of the framer. Each view is signed lower, right, although we have not been able to properly identify the artist. The paintings are in excellent condition, behind glass. c. 1910-1930. $22 US Shipping. |
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