- Artist
- Canaletto
- Year
- c. 1730
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
The Grand Canal is one of Canaletto’s luminous vedute of Venice, capturing the city’s principal waterway with the precision of a surveyor and the eye of a poet. Sunlight plays over palaces, gondolas, and the shimmering water in a composition that made Canaletto the most sought-after painter of Venice for 18th-century Grand Tourists. His meticulous views remain the defining images of La Serenissima.