1835 print PIAZZA SAN MARCO, VENICE, ITALY, #21

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View 1835 print PIAZZA SAN MARCO, VENICE, ITALY, #21 with current marketplace pricing, condition, product images and item details. Before the five arched portals of the basilica lies the Piazza San Marco, a vast paved and arcaded square. Piazza San Marco. Italie_21 1835 print PIAZZA SAN MARCO, VENICE, ITALY, #21 Print from steel engraving titled Place et Eglise de St. Marc , published in a volume of L'Univers Pittoresque , Paris, approx. page size 21 x 13 cm, approx. image size 12 x 8.5 cm. Piazza San Marco Before the five arched portals of the basilica lies the Piazza San Marco, a vast paved and arcaded square. Napoleon called the Piazza the finest drawing room in Europe. The northern and southern wings of the square are formed by two official buildings, the Old Procurators' Offices and the New Procurators' Offices. The buildings now house fashionable shops and elegant cafés, whose string ensembles compete with each other in summer months to attract customers to their open-air tables. At the basilica end of the Old Procurators' building stands the Clock Tower, a late 14th-century structure where the hours are struck by two Moorish figures. Tourists throng the square at all hours, outnumbered only by gluttonous pigeons. The Clock Tower rises over the entrance to the Merceria, the main shopping street leading to the Rialto, and stands in a direct line of sight to the columns at the end of the Piazzetta. This sightline is emphasized by three flagpoles fronting the basilica and by Sansovino's Loggetta (“Small Loggia,” or “Small Gallery”), at the base of the Campanile, where council members met. The Campanile, the massive 324-foot (99-metre) bell tower of St. Mark's, dominates the townscape, visible for miles across the lagoon. In 1902 it collapsed, making a fortune for the photographer who captured the event. The city council decided immediately to rebuild it exactly as it was, and the work was completed by 1912. The Campanile stands close to the 21 bays of the Old Library (1529, also called the Library of St. Mark's or the National Marcian Library), on the western side of the Piazzetta. The library was designed by Sansovino to house a great collection of humanist texts and manuscripts bequeathed in 1468 to the republic. Now a major research library, it numbers among its treasures Marco Polo's will, a manuscript in Petrarch's hand, and many books and maps printed when Venice was a great publishing and cartographic centre. Category: Art › Art Prints.

Size Type/Largest Dimension

Small (Up to 14'')

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Print

Year of Production

1835

Date of Creation

1800-1899

Original/Reproduction

Original Print

Style

Realism

Print Type

Engraving

Country of Origin

Croatia