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Venice: The Giudecca with the Zitelle

Image credit: The National Gallery, London

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Beyond Venice’s Grand Canal, on the peaceful island of Guidecca in the easternmost part of the city, is the domed church of Santa Maria della Presentazione. Better known as the Zitelle, the church was built in the sixteenth century and attached to a foundling hospital for young girls (zitella is Italian for ’spinster').

We see energetic figures unload cargo and row gondolas across the lagoon, all described with vibrant colour against a backdrop dominated by blue and brown tones. Guardi often positioned an elegant, white sail in the left foreground of his pictures to draw us into the scene (as in his The Punta della Dogana and Venice: The Doge’s Palace and the Molo). In the companion picture to this one, Venice: The Punta della Dogana, he used a boat’s spindly bare mast to the same effect.

The National Gallery, London

London

Title

Venice: The Giudecca with the Zitelle

Date

1780s

Medium

Oil on canvas

Measurements

H 18.7 x W 23.8 cm

Accession number

NG6157

Acquisition method

Bequeathed by Mrs Elizabeth Carstairs, 1952

Work type

Painting

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