Minneapolis Institute of Art
The Equestrian Monument
Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal)
- Date
- c. 1735–46
- Medium
- Etching
- Department
- European Art
- Institution
- Minneapolis Institute of Art
This is one of Canaletto’s fantasy views of faded grandeur. Laundry hangs out to dry from the upper-level logia and the add-on wooden terrace, beneath which two men sit drinking at a table while the women do all the work. The statue atop a massive column recalls Venice’s famous equestrian statue of Bartolomeo Colleoni executed by Andrea del Verrocchio in the 1480s, but Canaletto’s version stands near fortifications by the sea rather than in a city square. Italy, Europe
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