Doge Pietro Grimani Carried into Piazza San Marco after his Election, 1741, Michele Marieschi. Galerie G. Sarti, Paris
Venice vs. Rome: A Capital Contest
GETTY CENTER
Harold M. Williams Auditorium
Pitting gilded gondolas against sumptuous coaches, Venice and Rome sought to surpass each other in staging the 18th-century's most spectacular festivals and celebrations. Peter Björn Kerber, curator of the exhibition Eyewitness Views: Making History in Eighteenth-Century Europe, explores the pictures Canaletto, Panini, and other leading painters produced to record these dazzling occasions.
