Uma Vista de Porta di Pontecorvo, Pádua, Itália (Padua A View of the Porta di Pontecorvo) - Ateliê de Giovanni Antonio Canal "Canaletto"

 

Uma Vista de Porta di Pontecorvo, Pádua, Itália (Padua A View of the Porta di Pontecorvo) - Ateliê de Giovanni Antonio Canal "Canaletto" 
Pádua - Itália
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Executed by a highly skilled member of Canaletto's workshop, this composition derives from a larger painting at the Kunsthalle, Hamburg (inv. no. 769), dated circa 1740. The view of Padua was among Canaletto's most popular designs, attesting to its compositional success. The dome and campanile of the Church of Santa Giustina anchor the composition at left; the Porta di Pontecorvo fortification tower stands at center. A time-worn Gothic portico fills the painting's right side, before which a group of figures examine a massive classical sarcophagus and a statue of a lion. Texto da Sotheby's.