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Lot 58
Giacomo Guardi (Venice 1764-1825)
Two views of San Giorgio in Alga
Closed24 January 2008
Price Realised
USD 17,500
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Specialist note
San Giorgio in Alga is an island between the Giudecca and Fusina. A Benedictine monastery was founded there in 1000 AD but was destroyed by fire in the eighteenth century. At the end of the eighteenth century it became the location for a prison.