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Comment | Monet might have seen Venice, but his paintings suggest he didn’t feel it

The Impressionist failed to grasp the innate melancholy of the city he described as “too beautiful to be painted”

Ben Luke
22 August 2025
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“The subtleties of its water seemingly beyond his formulaic brushwork”: Claude Monet’s The Grand Canal, Venice (1908)
Photo: Randy Dodson; courtesy Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco