01 Painting of the Canals of Venice by the artists of their time, with foot notes. #51

Egisto Massoni, Italy (1854-1929)

Venezia-Canal Dei Fuseri

Oil on board

24"H x 14.5"W

Private collection

Venice is known as "the City of Canals" and contains 182 named canals which break down further into Canal Segments connecting Venice' islands.. The longest canal is the Grand Canal which spans 4,016 meters. In Venice, a single canal is called rio.

The current canals of Venice are descendants of natural lagoon channels that separated the original islands. With the development of the City of Venice, their natural paths were gradually modified through land reclamation that brought the islands closer and closer to each other, resulting in the canal network one can observe today. Due to these pervasive human interventions, only a few of today's canals still retain their original natural course, as evidenced by the Grand Canal, whose sinuous shape clearly betrays its natural origins.

The Ponte dei Fuseri , constructed in 1755. It crosses the Rio dei Fuseri bridging a gap of 7.24 meters. On the northern side of the bridge is the sestiere of San Marco and on the southern side is also San Marco .There are 2 ramps.The steps are paved with Trachite. Also, this bridge has 1 arch. 

Egisto Massoni (Pisa, 1854 – Venice, 1929) was an Italian painter, of vedute and vistas dal vero. He painted both in oil and watercolor.

He was a resident of Pisa. He painted landscapes of the countryside around Rome and seascapes and vedute of Venice. At Turin, in 1884, he exhibited two paintings: In laguna a Venezia and A Canal at Venice.

After a stay in Liguria, he was in Rome before 1880, a period in which he participated in the custom of "artistic outings", to paint from the truth in the Roman countryside (Studies from life in Cervara, exposed in Rome in 1880 ). In the following decade he moved to Campania and Venice to paint marinas. In the capital he exhibited annually with the associations of the Amateurs and the Cultori and the Acquarellisti until 1893. More on Egisto Massoni

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