Canaletto’s Venice was the 18th century’s most worldly and sensual ... Londoners returned with Canaletto’s etchings and oil paintings that an Englishwoman visiting the city for the first ...

Although Venice was politically and economically spent by the beginning of the 18th century, in that century it nevertheless easily rivalled, if not surpassed, Paris and London in painting ...

In the 18th century, when wealthy men from all over ... he could be magnificent. Canaletto and the Art of Venice is at the Queen’s Gallery, SW1 from tomorrow until November 12 ...

The paintings juxtapose the glitterati of the 18 th century with vignettes of beggars ... in the vast courtyard of the Doge's Palace in Venice following the presentation of diplomatic credentials ...

The floating city of Venice has long lured travelers ... which helped develop the art of opera in the 18th century, is a ...