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"Solemnite du Bucentaure, qui ce celebre a Venise le jour de l'Ascension". Orig. copper-engraving. Published in Amsterdam by P. Mortier, ca. 1700. A view of Venice with a great ship and many Gondolas in the foreground. 47:58,5 cm (18 1/2 x 23 inch.).

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Mortier, Pierre

Mortier, Pierre

Amsterdam

1700

"Solemnite du Bucentaure, qui ce celebre a Venise le jour de l'Ascension". Orig. copper-engraving. Published in Amsterdam by P. Mortier, ca. 1700. A view of Venice with a great ship and many Gondolas in the foreground. 47:58,5 cm (18 1/2 x 23 inch.).

The bucentaur (bucintoro in Venetian) was the state galley of the doges of Venice. It was used every year on Ascension Day up to 1798 to take the doge out to the Adriatic Sea to perform the ceremony of wedding Venice to the sea (Wikipedia).

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