Luca Carlevarijs Paintings of Venice mapped

Luca Carlevarijs (1663-1730) was among the first to paint realistic scenes in Venice, perhaps after being inspired on a trip to Rome where he saw others doing similar work.

The sites he painted are the major landmarks, but with fascinating detail in the citizenry that are included.  He painted the life of Venice, not just the structures or grandeur.  There remains a vitality of people living life as Venetians, and not a nostalgia tableau as some 19th and 20th C painters have rendered it.

Luca Carlevarijs paintings geocoded

The Bridge for the Feast of the Madonna della Salute

by Luca Carlevarijs 

Venetian Palazzo Paintings Geocoded

Most great landscape painters who have had the opportunity  have tried their hand at capturing the magic that is the combination of water and architecture in Venice.  The range of their styles brings to our attention the fact that no site has only one appearance: our attention is always at work, so that every impression is an interpretation rather than a simple "observation".

Compare centuries of views and interpretations though a geo-organized collection of hundreds of masterpiece paintings of Venice, along the Grand Canal and tucked in quiet corners.

Palazzo Paintings geocoded

Francesco Guardi Paintings Mapped in GeocodedArt.com

Francesco Guardi (1712-1793) paintings included many interiors, fantasy scenes based on ancient architectural ruins, and a few dozen views that reflect the real arrangement of structures in Venice (with varying accuracy).

Compared to others who generate keepsakes for tourists, Guardi works are more emotionally loaded, and are remarked on for their atmosphere,  If one could capture what the air would have felt (and smelt) like while standing on these locations, it might be associated with his frequently overcast skies.

Guardi paintings geocoded

The Three-Arched Bridge at Cannaregio

by Francesco Guardi