Sluice doors at Dolo (1727, Ashmolean Museum of Art and archaeology, Oxford, UK)

The sluices of Dolo is one of the first of Canaletto's paintings depicting canals in the mainland. Canaletto often travelled to the mainland to study the effects of light and colour on his canvasses.

The painting shows the busy life around the sluices with passenger's boats arriving ready to move across, with an officer standing by, ready to open the gates, and with a kid presumably fishing from the bridge. 

The enveloping art ceramic interpretation of this painting is magistral; the reproduction is a beautiful example of ceramics work. Furthermore, when lit up, the images on the table lamp bring forward a nice softened light that gives the lamp a beautiful reflection.

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