Richard Parkes Bonington’s "View of the Lagoon Near Venice" is a small Romantic seascape. The work shows the Venetian lagoon under a vast, changeable sky, its low horizon emphasizing the immensity of air and water.
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Canaletto - Regatta on the Canale Grande
Giovanni Paolo Panini’s "Architectural Capriccio With a Preacher in Roman Ruins" stages an imaginary sermon inside a grand, invented city of antiquity. Towering Corinthian columns, broken archways, and fragments of entablature frame the scene like a stone theater.
Giovanni Paolo Panini - Roman capriccio- the Colosseum and other monuments