The Byzantines and the Venetians were masters of commerce, and that led to a devastating trade war between the two powers.

James was likely influenced by Canaletto, with whom he may have worked as a studio assistant during Canaletto's visit to England in 1754. His Venetian views became popular during the 18th century, as ...

It’s the same panorama that 18th-century Venetian painter Canaletto would carefully reproduce while sitting at the palazzo’s second-floor window, his light-drenched depictions of the scene exactly ...