- Artist
- Francesco Guardi
- Year
- ca. 1765–68
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 13 3/8 x 20 in. (34 x 50.8 cm)
Figures gather beneath the gilded ceiling of an antechamber in Venice’s Doge’s Palace. Francesco Guardi, the last great painter of Venetian views, turns the stately interior into a shimmering play of light and atmosphere.