Title:
Veduta del Palazzo de' NN: H.H.: Pisani
Creator/Contributor:
Giovanni Francesco Costa (artist)
Date:
1750
Identifier:
1972.10
Format:
Etching
The Vedute, or views of Venice, were a fashionable series of engraved urban scenes carried out by Costa (and other artists,
including Canaletto). The views showed the homes and haunts of well-to-do Venetians in a distinctive, rigorous perspective.
Like Canaletto's, much of Costa's style traces to his work as a designer of stage sets, and, in Costa's case, as an architect.
Costa worked with many of the most influential Italian Neoclassicists of his time, including the architect Andrea Palladio,
for whom he designed the frontispiece of his seminal book, The Five Orders of Architecture (1746).