Santa Maria della Salute
$47.00
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- 380g/m² cotton canvas — certified museum quality
- Solid wood stretcher bar with 0.75” gallery wrap
- HD Giclée print — colour-true to the original
- Ready to hang — hanging hardware included
Santa Maria della Salute, painted in the mid-to-late 1760s by Francesco Guardi, captures one of the most recognizable landmarks of the Venetian skyline: Baldassare Longhena's great Baroque church, built as a votive offering after the plague of 1630, seen here from across the Grand Canal in the shimmering, silvery light that became Guardi's signature. Where his rival Canaletto favored crisp, almost architectural precision, Guardi worked with a looser, more atmospheric touch — dissolving stone and water alike into flickers of paint.
By the 1760s Guardi had turned decisively toward the veduta, the topographical view prized by Grand Tour travelers eager to bring home a picture of Venice itself. His late style, with its broken brushwork and restless light, would later be seen as an anticipation of Impressionism a full century ahead of its time — a way of painting the city not as it measured, but as it felt.
Held in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, this masterwork is presented here as a premium stretched canvas reproduction, printed on museum-quality matte canvas and hand-wrapped around a solid 0.75-inch gallery wrap frame — ready to hang and built to last.
| Artist | Francesco Guardi |
| Year | ca. 1763–69 |
| Medium | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 21 x 33 3/4 in. (53.3 x 85.7 cm) |
| Collection | The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
| Movement | Baroque (Venetian veduta) |
| Available sizes | |
| Small | 40 × 30 cm (16″ × 12″) |
| Medium | 50 × 40 cm (20″ × 16″) |
| Large | 90 × 60 cm (36″ × 24″) |
| All sizes include a 0.75" gallery wrap. Ready to hang — no framing required. | |
