Canaletto

Mention the name Canaletto and richly detailed and carefully composed views of eighteenth century Venice will spring into most people’s minds. Certainly, his paintings remain much admired centuries after their creation, as well as being instantly recognizable and vividly evoking the age and society in which they were painted. Canaletto (real name: Giovanni Antonio Canal) […]

An Artist’s Journey to Rome:

A couple enjoys a casual Saturday stroll. A child wearing cumbrous rollberblades clatters over the sanpietrini as his mother calls out to him. I catch sight of Andrea and stand up from my seat on an ancient stone where I’d been watching the slow current of people moving through Piazza di S. Lorenzo in Lucina. […]