The Palazzo Ducale, Seen from San Giorgio Maggiore
Claude Monet (1908)
In The Palazzo Ducale, Seen from San Giorgio Maggiore, Claude Monet turns Venice into a theater of <strong>light and time</strong>. The Doge’s Palace glows as a pale, honeyed rectangle while the <strong>lagoon’s rippling violets and blues</strong> swallow stone into shimmer. A <strong>dark triangular quay</strong> in the foreground steadies the eye, making the city seem to hover above water.
