Canaletto. An imaginary Venice

The exhibition Canaletto. An imaginay Venice sets out to reassess the traditional interpretations of the work of one of the greatest eighteenth-century painters. The paintings and prints on show convey the image of a city wohse fame is universal, an icon which has remained unchanged over the passing of time. For this reason, some art historians have seen Canaletto as a painter who mechanically reproduced the reality of his surroundings. The present exhibition analyses his work from a different perspective: that of an artist capable of changing the image of his city, to the extent that it is difficult to separate the fiction of his paintings from the truth of the city`s architecture.