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Landscape with Tower and Two Ruined Pillars, from Vedute
CanalettoLinkedCulture matchlcp-9a316ea1e17f
- Date
- 1735/44
- Medium
- Etching in black on ivory laid paper
- Culture
- Italy
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 159752
From the Art Institute of Chicago record
Curiously, Canaletto never printed either of these energetic capriccio landscapes (depictions of fantastic architecture or ruins) individually. Instead, they exist only as a pair on a single sheet (for the left half, see 1922.1381.13). While both images include fictional antiquarian architectural elements, it is not known why the artist combined them. Perhaps it was their mirrored compositions: when placed side by side, both images slope inward toward a church that straddles the margin between the plates and connects the two scenes.
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- Credit line
- The Joseph Brooks Fair Collection
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- Object type
- AAT300041273
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