Cantankerous and greedy: witness accounts agree on these character traits, but this did not deter clientele of Antonio Canal, better known as Canaletto. The wealthy from all parts of Europe wanted his landscapes, particularly those of Venice. The English loved them most of all, suffering from a sort of ‘Canalettomania’. The Intesa Sanpaolo paintings at the Querini, two views of the Grand Canal, are replicas of a series of fourteen canvases that Canaletto (Venice, 1697 - 1748) painted in the 1730s. He sold an image of the Venice of his day. With the fall of the Republic shortly afterwards this image remained fixed in the eighteenth century for years to come.