# Capriccio of a Riverside Town [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MARIESCHI, Michele]() - Date: 1701-1750 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 51 x 75 cm ## Commentary Capriccio of a Riverside Town c. 1735 Oil on canvas, 51 x 75 cm Private collection The painting represents a capriccio of an imagined cityscape with Saint Mark's Basilica and ruins on the banks of a river. This imagined riverside town is typical of the spirited and picturesque landscapes created early in the career of Michele Marieschi. The artist includes celebrated and instantly recognizable edifices, such as Venice's Saint Mark's Basilica here, and places them side by side with fantasy buildings and crumbling ruins. The artist is not bound by rules of perspective: the ruined columns and the tower overgrown with greenery are painted to a completely different scale than the houses directly opposite them on the other side of the river at right. They dwarf the figures beneath them, who cross the bridge between the two sides. ## Related artworks - [Capriccio with Classical Arch and Goats]() - [Capriccio with Gothic Building and Obelisk]() - [Santa Maria della Salute, Venice]() - [The Grand Canal at San Geremia \(detail\)]() - [The Grand Canal at San Geremia]() - [The Grand Canal near the Salute]() - [The Grand Canal with Santa Maria della Salute]() - [The Grand Canal with the Ca' Rezzonico and the Campo San Samuele]() - [The Grand Canal with the Fishmarket \(detail\)]() - [The Grand Canal with the Fishmarket]() - [The Grand Canal with the Palazzo Labia and Entry to the Cannareggio]() - [The Rialto Bridge from the Riva del Vin \(detail\)]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()