The Piazza San Marco, Venice
Pierre Auguste Renoir · 1881 · Oil on canvas
Public domain
Marked Public Domain by the Minneapolis Institute of Art.
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About this picture
The Piazza San Marco, Venice is a public-domain painting by Pierre Auguste Renoir, dated 1881. Oil on canvas. The file comes from Minneapolis Institute of Art.
“The Piazza San Marco, Venice” (1881) is the kind of picture Renoir built from soft, decorative color, first learned while he painted porcelain.
About the artist
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841–1919) was a French Impressionist painter of figures, dance halls, and later warm nudes and still lifes. He trained as a porcelain painter, which shows in the soft, decorative color.
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