Rialto Bridge (Covered Bridge, Venice)
Maurice Brazil Prendergast American
Not on view
The Rialto and other bridges were favorite motifs of Prendergast during his second trip to Venice (1911–12), serving as the subject of about twenty-five watercolors. As in his painting of the Piazza di San Marco (52.126.6), here, Prendergast depicts a site that is a popular tourist destination and an essential aspect of the working city. The Rialto Bridge, the oldest of the four bridges that span Venice’s Grand Canal, contains rows of shops beneath its arcade, which leads to the bustling Rialto market in the heart of the city. The vivacious, mosaic-like patterns and free application of paint reflect the artist’s aptitude for experimentation as well as the influence of the bright Fauvist works he had probably seen in Paris a few years earlier
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