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One happy thing about returnirg home after a vacation is remembering it. Mentally, every detail of the trip is recorded, but it is when souvenirs are unpacked that memories really begin. This habit of acquiring while traveling is a very' old ofie, and it reached its apex of quality during the 18th Century when English travelers began to buy paintings and statues during their trips to the continent. Although some were serious collectors, many of them bought paintings which reminded them of the ^Various cities where they had stopped. In fact, an entire group of topographical paintefs was established in Italy to supply this de mand.
Venice was the favorite Italian city for the 18th Century tourist, just as it is still the favorite Italian city for the 20th Century traveler. Venice, with its unique.site and its beautiful buildings, enchanted the eyes of the traveler to an extraordinary degrerf, and Venice pioduced two particularly gifted painters who could record its visual aspect with especially tellipg effect. One of these was Canaletto, whose carefully detailed canvases achieved a miracle of clarity.
The other was Francesco Guardi (17'2-1793), the painter of ,jhe “Piazza San Marco” illustrated above. Guardi, a member of a painting family and of the minor
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