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Ca Rezzonico, Venice, until 22nd September 2008 - Michele Marieschi exhibition
For Venetian painters there was one great source of subject above all others - there are few cities more iconic than Venice, a quite unique city floating on its wooden piles above the lagoon, its canals tight with gondolas and sailing ships. And so, as Venetian artists embraced the realism of 18th century art, they took especially keenly to one artistic genre of landscape - the 'veduta'. It simply means 'view' and the most famous Venetian exponent was Canaletto of course, along with Francesco Guardi. Far less known, is Michele Marieschi, sometimes also just called Michiel, but the current exhibition at Venice's Ca' Rezzonico aims to rectify that.
Marieschi was born in 1710, probably in Germany, but in 1735 he pops up in Venice, registered as an artist in the Fraglia de' Pittori, or guild of painters. This son of an engraver (or possibly a wood cutter, contemporary sources differ), the young artist first made a living painting 'caprices' before settling to the veduta form. Evidence for his father's trade is also there in Marieschi's choice of alternative medium. As well as painting extraordinary scenes such as the Fantastic Landscape, he made a set of engravings of Venice, cumbersomely titled the Magnificentiores Selectioresque Urbis Venetiarum Prospectus. This latter contains a portrait by Angelo Trevisani.
Marieschi certainly had important friends - one of the 'sponsors' at his wedding was the Italian-German painter Gaspare Diziani, a successful painter in the Roccoco style. And his patron was Reichsgraf Marshal Johann Matthias von der Schulenburg, the great Prussian general and collector of art. Sadly, the gifted Michele Marieschi's career was over almost as it begun, the artist dying in Venice in 1743.
Michele Marieschi (1710-1743), Vedute Incise, runs at Venice's Ca' Rezzonico until 22 September 2008.
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