Peter Ackroyd's Venice

The City as Art (1x2)

: 13, 2009

Peter explores the art and artists that Venice has inspired over the centuries, including Guardi and Canaletto who created the most recognisable views of perhaps the most frequently-painted city in the world. He finds it is the buildings that star in the paintings of Venice; not the people, and explores how the city inspired a number of uniquely Venetian innovations in its artists.