Monaco - Running through November 25 in the Principality of Monaco, "Lumières sur la Lagune" offers visitors a rare glimpse into 18th-century Venetian landscape painting. Conceived by Italian art dealer and antiquarian Cesare Lampronti, the exhibition is hosted at the Hartford Fine Art – Lampronti Gallery.
The show brings together thirty masterworks by ten prominent figures of Venetian vedutism. Among the highlighted pieces are a depiction of Piazza San Marco painted by Canaletto during his English period, Michele Marieschi's view of the Grand Canal with the Church of San Stae, and a rendering of the Colosseum by Bernardo Bellotto. The collection also features works by Francesco Guardi, Giuseppe Bernardino Bison, Francesco Albotto, and Giovanni Battista Cimaroli. (9colonne)