# Hot-Air Balloon Rising [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [GUARDI, Francesco]() - Date: 1751-1800 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 66 x 51 cm ## Commentary Francesco Guardi viewed a hot-air balloon ascent in 1782, two years before he painted this subject. The balloon is artfully framed by the portico of the Dogana di Mare, as the viewer faces the Giudecca canal; two Palladian basilicas are visible in the distance. Such sky-rising was a popular sport in the eighteenth century. Built for the procurator Pesaro, this balloon was manned by Conte Zambeccari only a year after the Montgolfier brothers' ascent. ## Related artworks - [An Architectural Caprice]() - [Audience Granted by the Doge]() - [Bacino di San Marco with San Giorgio and the Giudecca]() - [Bridge at Dolo]() - [Campo Santi Giovanni e Paolo]() - [Canal Grande with Santa Lucia and the Scalzi Church]() - [Capriccio with Venetian Motifs]() - [Carnival Thursday on the Piazzetta]() - [Church of Santa Maria Zobenigo]() - [Doge Alvise IV Mocenigo Appears to the People in St Mark's Basilica in 1763]() - [Fire in the Oil Depot at San Marcuola]() - [Fire in the San Marcuola Oil Depot]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()