Which Italian artist painted “The Stonemason’s Yard”?
The Stonemason's Yard The Stonemason's Yard The Stonemason's Yard (formally known as "Campo S. Vidal and Santa Maria della Carità") is an early oil painting by Giovanni Antonio Canal, better known as Canaletto. It depicts an informal scene in Venice, looking over a temporary stonemason's yard in the Campo San Vidal and across the Grand Canal towards the church of Santa Maria della Carità. Painted in the mid to late 1720s, it is considered one of Canaletto's finest works. The painting measures . It depicts a Venetian scene looking roughly southwest over a temporary stonemason's yard situated in an open space beside the
The Stonemason Ostracon The Stonemason Ostracon The Stonemason Ostracon is a figured-limestone ostracon from the Ramesside period of Ancient Egypt, 19-20th Dynasties. The figured-ostracon of "The Stonemason" is made in outline form with black and (faint)-red paint-(ink). It is a sketchpad ostracon, as sections of red lines remain unfilled, as well as finalized black lines show adjacent to the faint reds. Minor sections of a red frame line remain. The unflattering figured-character of the stonemason is: bald, paunched, with facial stubble, in a leaning-over, and awkward pose. It is a caricature scene, as in a cartoon. The Stonemason is holding his chisel in