LEARNING AND SEEING - IN VENICE
For me, the name Canaletto conjures up Venice. Most of us may stop there for this very prolific artist. Laurent asked me if I would join him to see the exhibition «Canaletto in Venice» and as this is a period, the 18th century, we are studying at the Louvre I thought it would perhaps help me to look at the artist a little better. We have been to Venice a couple of times together but I have no memory of actually seeing paintings there by this Master. Seeing them in the Maillol museum was like being there and thank goodness without the huge 10 story ships which turn around the bay so tourists can say «I have seen Venise». I wonder when they will stop that nonsense which must be lucrative for the city even so. Taller than a building Seeing Venice If the city survives it will not really have changed so much over the centuries. If it doesn’t I suppose those born in the next century will say that such a place could never have existed...I wonder? Thanks to Laurent I saw Canaletto