Canaletto has scattered stars throughout the night sky. Giorgio Rondelli allena una ventina dei suoi Atleti in vista delle corse campestri. On a visit to Venice last year, we thought it would be fun to visit the Santa Marta area and see what remains of the views shown in the painting. And even then, the moon is far from full, and sits much higher in the sky. There is one other well-known painting of the Festa di Santa Marta. If we’re looking at buildings on Giudecca, then the church cannot be Santa Marta but must be San Biagio. Perhaps further research will put that in doubt and bring Olson’s 1757 date back into contention — if it does however, I don’t think it will be on the basis of a full moon over San Giorgio. Get Directions +39 335 740 4607. If Canaletto decided he needed a moon to light the dark shoreline, or if his client had requested a moon, he would naturally have endeavoured to make it artistically successful. To get the moon even close to aligning with San Giorgio, we need to advance to the middle of the morning of July 29, with the sun well up. As it is shown, the moon over San Giorgio in Alga forms strong compositional triangles to lead the eye through the painting, along the row of buildings from the right, towards San Giorgio, and up to the moon. New buildings to the south block the view out towards San Giorgio in Alga. Il Bruch della Vigilia di Natale è solo da Yogi. Making history in Eighteenth-Century Europe, The J Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 2017, p. 1. People. [1] Peter Björn Kerber, Eyewitness Views. painting by Canaletto (Gemäldegalerie) (Museum: Gemäldegalerie). The topography of the painting is confusing. He did make sketches, and some sketches of Santa Marta survive, but they are studies of the buildings on the right of the painting, indicating position, heights, colours, and materials. This would make more logical sense — the painting would then be depicting the Santa Marta area itself — and it also accounts for the clear line of sight to San Giorgio in Alga. However, the tail curves in the wrong direction and the position in the sky is not realistic (it is shown too high in the sky to be to the west southwest at this latitude). Festivalgoers would take to the water around the area of Santa Marta and head out to catch sole, returning to cook and eat it, accompanied by music and dancing well into the night. But the deeper I dig, the less probable the whole notion seems. Donald W. Olson in “Further Adventures of the Celestial Sleuth” makes a case for 1757, based on finding a full or nearly full moon in the southwestern sky at an altitude below 15° between the hours of midnight and morning twilight on the night of July 29. I admit I started this journey excited at the prospect of potentially being able to improve the dating of the Streit Canalettos using the moon. Another candidate for astronomical dating, perhaps? It’s hard to identify a plausible location that would provide this angle of view onto the buildings. You can check it out yourself using The Photographer’s Ephemeris. 10 were here. Entrance to the Grand Canal: Looking East, The Molo, Seen from the Bacino di San Marco. Where is the painter’s viewpoint located? Canaletto’s viewpoint is not so easily accessible today. But why depict San Biagio in a painting celebrating La sagra di Santa Marta? The area around the church, at the far western tip of the city, has been continuously expanded and repurposed and now provides docks for arriving cruise ships and associated service organisations, including the port authority. If so, then the perspective is extremely compressed or distorted. Alcuni momenti della vigilia di San Giovanni a Ragusa con la celebrazione dei Vespri e il rientro del simulacro in Cattedrale portato a spalla dai fedeli. There are no constellations that I can confidently identify, except perhaps for one. What did we find? A good match might support dating the painting to a particular year. Erich Schleier, whose research established the “not before” 1758 date that is generally applied to Canaletto’s paintings for Sigismund Streit, suggests[3] that Streit may have been inspired to commission Canaletto to paint the Festa di Santa Marta on account of having seen Diziani’s recent version. In Canaletto’s painting, a full moon hangs in the sky above San Giorgio, slightly to the left. Facebook is showing information to help you better understand the purpose of a Page. If you’d been there in the 18th century for the celebration held the previous evening, July 28, La Vigilia di Santa Marta, it would have been fish supper of sogliola with saor for dinner. 405 visits. 1759 fares little better: the sun has not yet set when a waxing crescent moon is over San Giorgio. San Giorgio Jonico, Puglia, Italy 74027. If you have visited Venice in recent years, probably the closest you may have come to Santa Marta is if you arrived by sea. Indeed, the original source for Erich Schleier’s own 1758 terminus post quem (see Part 1) has so far proved elusive. An island can be seen offshore in the lagoon on the horizon towards the left. [2] Giovanni Mariacher, Recenti restauri a Cà Rezzonico Dipinti di Gaspare ed Antonio Diziani in Arte veneta, V (1951), pp. What if, for example, the moon on the night had been hanging in the sky above Santa Marta itself? Canaletto did not paint large canvasses in oil at night in the middle of a street party. Vivila a ilmaredentro! Rather, you would expect to see the Punta di Santa Marta itself to the northwest. It is dated 1750–1755 in the literature, earlier than any currently accepted date for Canaletto’s version. Whether this is indeed a version of Scorpius or not, the painting of the stars suggests that Canaletto was no more concerned with astronomical accuracy than we might expect him to be. Knowing that the approximate diameter of the moon is 0.5°, and assuming it is depicted at the correct scale, with a little on-screen measuring the azimuth of the moon can be estimated to be ~244°, i.e. Page Transparency See More. The island in the lagoon appears also to be San Giorgio in Alga, but in reality, there’s no clear sightline from Giudecca that would also incorporate San Biagio. If so, then it seems quite possible that Canaletto’s depiction of a full moon, rather than being inspired by an actual observed event, is, in addition to its use as a light source and compositional aid, simply a nod to Diziani’s prototype. When I write “well-known”, that should be read as “visitors to the Ca’ Rezzonico museum may recall seeing it and scholars of settecento vedute likely know of it”. As with all four paintings in the commission, the precise dating is uncertain. While the Gemäldegalerie and most sources nowadays stick to the 1758–1763 dating, others hint at more precise dates but the basis is not always apparent. The moon is just past full, but it’s setting too far south. www.masseriapalazzi.it. In 1782, before the church and campanile were demolished, Doge Paulo Renier welcomed Pope Pius VI there, an event recorded in a wonderful painting by Francesco Guardi that shows San Giorgio in some detail. He writes: “Canaletto was inspired to create Night Festival at Santa Marta as a nearly full Moon was sinking toward the southwestern horizon in the early morning hours of July 29, 1757”. The Grand Canal in Venice from Palazzo Flangini to Campo... Piazza San Marco with the Basilica, Venice, Venice - The Dogana and San Giorgio Maggiore, View of the Giudecca Canal and the Zattere, Santa Maria della Salute, Venice from Grand Canal, Grand Canal: Looking North from Near the Rialto Bridge. Perhaps instead, this is not painted from the Giudecca at all, but is a view from near Santa Maria Maggiore just north of the Punta di Santa Marta. The moon sat over the water allows Canaletto to paint bright reflections, forming another triangle for the eye to follow: from the foreground to the woman staring out at the viewer beneath the tenting. He wished to send a collection of paintings, books and manuscripts to his former school in Berlin, the Gymnasium zum Grauen Kloster, that the pupils there should know something of life and opportunity in the Venetian Republic. You’d need to stay up for a very late night indeed to see it anywhere close to what’s depicted. Given the contradictions of the topography painted by Diziani, it would, in the words of Sir Humphrey, be a most courageous decision to attempt to date it based on the position of the Moon. 1762 is slightly closer, but it’s not a full moon. Finally, the moon is shown full, as seen in this closer view: There are all sorts of reasons why this sort of lunar analysis may be inappropriate (see Part 1). London: Seen Through an Arch of Westminster Bridge, Piazza San Marco: Looking East from the South West Corner, Entrance to the Grand Canal from the Molo, Venice, The Grand Canal in Venice with the Rialto Bridge, Santi Giovanni e Paolo and the Scuola di San Marco, Grand Canal: Looking North-East toward the Rialto Bridge. The period 1758–1763 is the established range in modern literature, and that is what is displayed alongside the painting where it hangs in Berlin today. Tomorrow, July 29, is the Festa di Santa Marta, one of the less well-known Venetian festivals and one that is no longer celebrated in a part of the city that is perhaps the most changed since Canaletto’s day. Contact Masseria Palazzi on Messenger. Buildings to the left, festivalgoers on the banks and in the boats, an island offshore in the mid-ground, and a full moon. That would be compositionally weaker and would have provided no opportunity to paint the reflection in the water — reasons for the artist to ‘improve’ reality. Modern residential blocks occupy the central area, away from the waterfront. It is almost the only surviving building of its time in the immediate area. 173–176, [3] Erich Schleier in Venedigs Ruhm in Norden, Forum des Landesmuseums Hannover 1991–1992, pp. Start ore 11.00. Canaletto painted the scene as part of a commission for Sigismund Streit, a retired German merchant who had made his life in Venice. Not much. Ippocampus Ristorante, Castel San Pietro Terme Picture: Vigilia di Natale - Check out Tripadvisor members' 4,660 candid photos and videos of Ippocampus Ristorante painting by Canaletto (Gemäldegalerie) (Museum: Gemäldegalerie). 24 dicembre 2016, Campo XXV Aprile. It is by Gaspare Diziani (1689–1767), a contemporary of Canaletto better known for painting religious and allegorical subjects than vedute or “reportorial views”[1]. The church of Santa Marta, never considered one of Venice’s great architectural glories, still stands in somewhat reduced form. As with La Vigilia di S. Pietro (see Part 1) the possibility of applying astronomical dating techniques suggests itself: the painting depicts a well-known location on a fixed day of the year (July 28) showing the moon in a particular phase and position. Here’s where the Moon would have appeared at around 2am (Venetian clocks would likely have been set a few minutes different to today): The moon is indeed mostly full (waxing, 94% illuminated), but it is around 13 degrees farther to the south than the position depicted in the painting. We can overlay the relevant part of the map on a modern satellite map in The Photographer’s Ephemeris and align things by referencing three churches which still stand today: Santa Marta, San Nicolò and San Sebastiano (named S. Bastian on Ughi’s map), marked with yellow stars below. They are all painted in what may be Naples Yellow — a pale yellow made from lead antimony oxide that he is known to have used. While you might argue that such a difference can be explained by artistic license, exactly that argument can also be invoked to ask why the painting should be assumed to depict an actual observed moon at all, let alone the early hours of July 29 1757 specifically. The Vigilia di San Pietro is an artwork on USEUM. But this time, the full moon lies to the extreme right of the composition, apparently in the skies above the distant Alps. The scene is almost a mirror image of Canaletto’s painting. On the north side of the island of Giudecca itself? But there are several aspects which make this location hard to rationalise. No moon appears in the sketches. Restaurant. Can we use lunar position and phase to help date them? Page created - March 25, 2018. Let’s quickly recap the main ones. The bearing from our viewpoint to the island is ~245°. Again, using Lodovico Ughi’s 1729 map of Venice we can get a sense of the Santa Marta area as it was in Canaletto’s day. Ripetute sull'erba del campo di mt.1000. Towards the left half of the sky is what might be a distorted painted-from-memory rendition of Scorpius: Scorpius is prominent in the southern sky during evenings in the height of summer and is one of the more visually memorable constellations. This is Part 3 in a series of articles examining paintings by Canaletto that depict the moon at night. If it is intended to be Scorpius, the stars and the moon are mutually inconsistent, astonomically speaking. See actions taken by the people who manage and post content. Subscribe today for your bi-weekly dose of inspiration. Reducing the opacity of the Ughi map, we can see how much land reclamation has occurred since the 18th century in this part of Venice: Taking the building depicted in the right foreground of the painting as our clue, we can identify the viewpoint Canaletto depicts: We can establish an approximate azimuth for the moon using clues in the painting. 1,783 likes. Pagina ufficiale del Gruppo Campanari di San Giorgio, nati ufficialmente il 7 aprile 2012, sabato di Pasqua. 1760? While the moon phase and direction can easily be checked on a map, we thought it would be fun to show the view towards San Giorgio using augmented reality to simulate how the moon would have appeared in the 1750s and 1760s. It is identified in the literature as depicting buildings on the island of Giudecca on the left, with the boats setting sail to head into the lagoon to the northwest. The photo below shows the remaining deconsecrated building of Santa Marta, looking along Calle Dietro Ai Magazzini (roughly meaning “alley behind the warehouses”, which tells you pretty much everything): We had to “walk” along the line from the painting’s viewpoint towards San Giorgio in order to obtain a clear line of sight: From there, it’s easy to explore the moon position using augmented reality in The Photographer’s Ephemeris to see if there are any likely matches. Here’s 1758: Not even close. You can view the painting in high resolution online via Google Arts & Culture. As with the San Pietro moon, it may depict another evening altogether or it may be entirely invented to suit the needs of the artist. The history of the dating of these paintings is a long and tortuous one — only one hundred years ago, the night scenes were not thought to be by Canaletto at all. Detail from La Vigilia di Santa Marta showing the island of San Giorgio in Alga in the Venetian Lagoon. The orange line that bisects it represents +6° above the horizon (remember, we’re looking for around +7°). Alla vigilia della Giornata sulla Liberà di Stampa la vicenda di Giorgio Bianchi Gianmarco Morosini Is it somewhere on Dorsoduro or San Marco, on the other side of the Giudecca Canal? 35–37, Dancing in the Dark: 4 Yoko Ono Instruction Pieces, A Critique of Banksy — Zeitgeist of the Modern Age, Visual Memory: How One Summer Left a Lasting Impression, Threatened Birds and Endangered Black Harlem, Cost-Efficient Ways to Run an Art Gallery. La notte della vigilia di #Ferragosto sta arrivando. southwest. This is San Giorgio in Alga. The giant grey pin in the camera view is sat atop San Giorgio. Hand-picked art wallpapers, free paintings to download and more from USEUM’s best in your mailbox every couple of weeks. Using the same technique and assumptions, the altitude above the horizon is approximately +7°. In a similar vein, 1761 and 1763 also miss the mark. It was created by Canaletto in 1750. Additionally, one of the large buildings to the left is identified[2] as the Palazzo Vendramin on Giudecca near to San Biagio. Log in to USEUM to download unlimited free images, send e-cards and interact with thousands of famous paintings, drawings and illustrations. However, the buildings depicted don’t match up terribly well to what is shown by Ughi.
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