The Venetians: A New History: from Marco Polo to Casanova (53 page)

Two Venetian Courtesans
by Carpaccio (
c
. 1490). Some experts now suggest that this may depict two aristocratic wives waiting for their husbands to return from hunting.

The painting by Titian of the young Caterina Cornaro, Queen of Cyprus, dressed as St Catherine of Alexandria (c 1542).

The monument to the great Venetian condottiere Colleoni by Verrocchio (1490). At the time it was the greatest equestrian statue cast in bronze.

The Battle of Lepauto
by Vicentino, which hangs in the Doge’s Palace (1603).

Painting of the Doge’s Palace by Canaletto, with a view down the Riva dei Schiavoni (late 1730s). To the left are the two columns of the Piazzetta.

The Piazza San Marco by Guardi (after 1780). He ended up selling his paintings to passing tourists here.

Ismael Mengs’s engraving of Casanova (eighteenth century).

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