# The Canal Grande with San Simeone Piccolo and the Scalzi [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [VISENTINI, Antonio]() - Date: 1701-1750 - Technique: Etching ## Commentary Canaletto was the first to depict this view of the Grand Canal, but later Francesco Guardi also painted this view. The Visentini based on his etching on Canaletto's painting. In the etching the Grand Canal is wedged in, as it were, between the churches and palaces. Consequently the buildings had to be shown in such foreshortening that the façade of Santa Lucia, for instance, is scarcely visible. ## Related artworks - [Architectural Fantasy]() - [Concert in a Villa \(detail\)]() - [Concert in a Villa \(detail\)]() - [Concert in a Villa]() - [Façade of San Francesco della Vigna]() - [Piazza Santi Giovanni e Paolo]() - [Portrait of Giovanni Antonio Canal, called Canaletto]() - [San Geremia and the Entrance of Cannaregio]() - [The Canal Grande from Santa Croce to the East]() - [Washerwomen]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()