The Bucintoro at the Molo on Ascension Day

The Bucintoro at the Molo on Ascension DayThe Bucentaur, or 'Bucintoro' was the great Venetian vessel of state. Every year on Ascension Day, the doge left the Molo and put out into the Adriatic to perform the ceremony of the symbolic Wedding of Venice to the Sea by casting a gold ring into the water. Market stalls have been set up in the Piazzetta for the event. The barge shown here on its return to land was the last 'Bucintoro', built in 1724 and destroyed when Napoleon overthrew the

shows several minor differences from the Lamport and Dulwich pictures

Catalogued by Bodmer among works attributed to LodovicoCarracci or from his workshop

the flagship of the Dutch Mediterranean force and

Pictures such as this head and others from this period

Dou has thought especially carefully about light and how it strikes different surfaces

Knightsbridge

rather a burst of light in the top corner as if the moon is just breaking through the clouds

Calraet signed his paintings with the same initials as his master - A

This picture was probably painted when Both was in Rome

probably of the late 1640s

An inscription is recorded on the verso: 'This for The Right Honourable my Lady Pitsligo'

Thomas Beach studied at the St Martin's Lane Academy and under Joshua Reynolds 1760-62