c. 1738-1740
La Piera del Bando. V.
Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal)Italian (active Venice, Rome, and England), 1697 - 1768
In this view of the Piazzetta San Marco, Canaletto illustrates the Piera (or Pietra) del Bando, located next to a column of the portico of the Basilica of San Marco. This fragment of ancient porphyry column (lower left), looted from Genoa during a thirteenth-century battle, was used as a proclamation stone from which important decrees were read.
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