Analysis Of The Pizetta Venice, Looking North

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Spatial Description In Canaletto’s painting The Pizzetta, Venice, Looking North, he does an excellent work of portraying the illusion of the third dimension which is depth. He uses this painting to show off a little bit of his skills by adding a lot of detail into his work. The great deal of detail catches the viewer’s eye in every aspect. There is something going on in every piece of the painting, which it makes it hard to focus on one particular part. It makes the viewer actually believe they are looking into the plaza of the Piazetta. In this painting there is spatial devices portrayed in every detail. Canaletto scaled the people in the courtyard or plaza extremely small to show how enormous the buildings are as well as how wide it is. In the bottom right hand corner I also see people in the walk way and the farther I see the fainter and smaller they become, this scale shows the depth as well as how far they are now. Right above, in the balconies on the right hand side the people are small to show the greatness of the arches. The size of the clock tower is twice the size of the other buildings to show how tall it actually is compare to the rest of the plaza. The statues at the top of the left building are built to the scale of the people in the middle of the plaza. Also the statues could be of the patrons of this picture, or their families. When I look at this painting the first thing I notice is overlap. All of the building overlap with each other. The building to the left overlaps with the two structures behind it to show the depth as well as to show how far behind they are. I can barely see the building to the left of the clock tower, which is overlapped by the far left structure, this is one way to show the distance. The people in the center plaza also overlap with each other to show the different crowds. I only see