Grand Canal, east view from Campo San Vio


The Grand Canal, seen east from Campo San Vio (in Italian, Il Canale Grande a San Vio) is an oil painting by the Italian rococo painter Canaletto. He made it after his stay in Rome in 1723. It was commissioned by a Venetian nobleman in order to decorate his palace. The commission consists of a total of four canvases, the Rio dei Mendicanti, Grand Canal, view to the northeast from the Palazzo Balbi to the Rialto bridge (both in the Venetian museum of Ca'Rezzonico) and the Grand Canal, East view from Campo San Vio and Piazza San Marco (both at the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid).

The canvas depicts an image of the Grand Canal with the dome of the Basilica of Santa Maria della Salute on the left.

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