Santa Maria Della Salute

Marieschi was born in Venice and was a well known architectural painter of Venetian subjects and views.  He was a pupil of his father, Michele Marieschi, and Gasparo Diziani, also Venetian “view” painters.

He imitated the style of the Italian painter Canaletto who devoted himself to painting picturesque views of Venice's canals, bridges, palaces and churches.   Begun in the seventeenth century, the church was erected on land at the end of the Grand Canal.  During the eighteenth century paintings of the Doge’s Palace and important Venetian churches were popular "souvenirs" of visits by those on the Grand Tour.