# Capriccio with Ruins and Porta Portello, Padua

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## Artwork

- Artist: [CANALETTO](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/canaletto-re13394459fce6d>)
- Date: 1701-1750
- Technique: Oil on canvas, 61 x 76 cm

## Commentary

This painting is probably the companion piece of the Capriccio with Classical Ruins and Buildings with which it shares its use of light and colour. The monument in the middle distance provides the greatest point of luminosity.

## Related artworks

- [A Regatta on the Grand Canal](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/canaletto-re13394459fce6d/a-regatta-on-the-grand-canal-r23e07406cc10d3>)
- [Arrival of the French Ambassador in Venice \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/canaletto-re13394459fce6d/arrival-of-the-french-ambassador-in-venice-detail-r84ddd4d08364fa>)
- [Arrival of the French Ambassador in Venice \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/canaletto-re13394459fce6d/arrival-of-the-french-ambassador-in-venice-detail-raff03807939e93>)
- [Arrival of the French Ambassador in Venice](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/canaletto-re13394459fce6d/arrival-of-the-french-ambassador-in-venice-r7803d5187f551a>)
- [Bacino di San Marco \(St Mark&#39;s Basin\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/canaletto-re13394459fce6d/bacino-di-san-marco-st-marks-basin-r255cf539d3235c>)
- [Campo San Rocco](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/canaletto-re13394459fce6d/campo-san-rocco-r886d64c8efb3ed>)
- [Campo Santa Maria Formosa](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/canaletto-re13394459fce6d/campo-santa-maria-formosa-r1cdaa22f2803ce>)
- [Capriccio: a Palladian Design for the Rialto Bridge, with Buildings at Vicenza](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/canaletto-re13394459fce6d/capriccio-a-palladian-design-for-the-rialto-bridge-with-buildings-at-vicenza-r6b52b5615aaf9d>)
- [Capriccio of a Bridge Leading to a Fortress by the Venetian Lagoon](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/canaletto-re13394459fce6d/capriccio-of-a-bridge-leading-to-a-fortress-by-the-venetian-lagoon-r1d283306277573>)
- [Capriccio: River Landscape with a Column](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/canaletto-re13394459fce6d/capriccio-river-landscape-with-a-column-rf1ee43bec41b20>)
- [Capriccio: Ruins and Classic Buildings](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/canaletto-re13394459fce6d/capriccio-ruins-and-classic-buildings-rfdf3f53332bedc>)
- [Capriccio: The Grand Canal, with an Imaginary Rialto Bridge and Other Buildings](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/canaletto-re13394459fce6d/capriccio-the-grand-canal-with-an-imaginary-rialto-bridge-and-other-buildings-r31ef76b426063d>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)