Bernardo Bellotto View of Pirna with the Fortress of Sonnenstein, c. 1760
Piazza San Marco, Venice
Attributed to Bernardo Bellotto (Italian, 1722–1780)
- Date
- c. 1740
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Size
- 53½ × 91½ in (136.2 × 232.5 cm)
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, accession 1962.169. See the museum’s record
- Credit
- Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund
Public domain image courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art (Open Access, CC0).
Palette
- #BABAB0, 29 % of the picture, closest to Sage Green walls
- #99A09A, 25 % of the picture, closest to Sage Green walls
- #3E3C34, 21 % of the picture, closest to Charcoal walls
- #615848, 18 % of the picture, closest to Chocolate walls
- #8B7F68, 8 % of the picture, closest to Olive walls
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Hang it
Pick the furniture and a print size to see it to scale on your wall.
- 23½ × 40 in, the whole painting on 30 × 40 in paper
- Center
- 55 in (140 cm) from the floor
- Above the sofa
- 8 in (20 cm) from the sofa to the frame
- Ideal width
- 56 to 63 in over an 84 in sofa
- Why this height
- Centered at eye level, this frame would not sit 6 to 10 in above the sofa, so the 8 in gap sets the height.
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Print it
No standard paper matches this painting’s proportions closely, so print it whole with a white border, or trim the edges to fill the paper.
| Paper | Filling the paper | Printed whole | Frame | Frame with a 2 in mat | Frame with a 3 in mat | Sharpness |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 × 7 in | trims 18 % | 4 × 7 in | 5 × 7 in ready-made | 9 × 11 in custom | 11 × 13 in custom | 974 dpi, crisp up close |
| 12 × 16 in | trims 21.9 % | 9½ × 16 in | 12 × 16 in ready-made | 16 × 20 in ready-made | 18 × 22 in custom | 425 dpi, crisp up close |
| 18 × 24 in | trims 21.9 % | 14 × 24 in | 18 × 24 in ready-made | 22 × 28 in ready-made | 24 × 30 in ready-made | 283 dpi, crisp from a step back |
| 20 × 30 in | trims 12.1 % | 17½ × 30 in | 20 × 30 in ready-made | 24 × 34 in custom | 26 × 36 in custom | 227 dpi, crisp from a step back |
| 24 × 36 in | trims 12.1 % | 21 × 36 in | 24 × 36 in ready-made | 28 × 40 in custom | 30 × 42 in custom | 189 dpi, crisp from a step back |
| 30 × 40 in | trims 21.9 % | 23½ × 40 in | 30 × 40 in ready-made | 34 × 44 in custom | 36 × 46 in custom | 170 dpi, crisp from a step back |
Sharpness is worked out from the largest file the museum offers. Above 300 dpi a print holds up at arm’s length; 150 dpi is plenty for a picture seen from across a sofa.
Download
Free for any use, including commercial: this image is public domain (CC0).
- Thumbnail (WebP) 560 × 320 px from Room Paintings
- Web image 1,263 × 721 px from Cleveland Museum of Art
- Print file 3,400 × 1,941 px from Cleveland Museum of Art
- Original file 7,000 × 3,996 px from Cleveland Museum of Art
- The museum’s record of this painting Cleveland Museum of Art
Public domain image courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art (Open Access, CC0). You may print, share, change and sell it without asking. Read what that means on our image license page, and how to get a good result in how to print a public-domain painting.
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