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Streets, squares and rooftops

Towns and Cities

Places people built and lived in. Canaletto's Piazza San Marco and a Venetian campo, the Rialto from Guardi's workshop, Pissarro's boulevard on a winter morning seen from a hotel window, Jongkind's Pont Neuf, Constable's Salisbury Cathedral through the trees, Bellotto's town gate at Pirna, and a village by a Japanese temple grove. Stone, windows and sky.

As a puzzle

Straight lines are the gift here. Rooflines, windows, bridges and boats give almost every piece of a street something to place, and the edges of buildings hand you firm lines to follow. The skies are the slow part, sorted by the faintest change of tone. Nearly all of these come out wider than they are tall.

A good size here: 60–250 pieces.

Styles here: Venetian PaintingImpressionismFrench RococoUkiyo-eDutch Golden AgeSpanish PaintingBarbizon SchoolBritish PaintingNordic PaintingNeoclassicism

Painters here: Francesco GuardiCamille PissarroUtagawa HiroshigeAlfred Sisley

24 pictures, pick one to build

Piazza San Marco Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal), late 1720s The Suijin Temple Grove, Uchikawa, and the Village of Sekiya Utagawa Hiroshige, 8th month 1857 Drawing the Eel Salomon van Ruysdael, early 1650s The Boulevard Montmartre on a Winter Morning Camille Pissarro, 1897 The Outer Harbor of Brest Henri Joseph van Blarenberghe, 1773 View of Toledo El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos), ca. 1599–1600 The Hamlet of Optevoz Charles-François Daubigny, ca. 1852 Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishop's Grounds John Constable, ca. 1825 A Lock, a Column, and a Church beside a Lagoon Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal) A Section of the Via Sacra, Rome (The Church of Saints Cosmas and Damian) Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, ca. 1814–15 View on the Quirinal Hill, Rome Simon Denis, 1800 View from the Quai d'Orsay Johan Barthold Jongkind, 1854 Imaginary Landscape with the Palatine Hill from Campo Vaccino François Boucher, early 1730s Venice: The Dogana and Santa Maria della Salute Workshop of Francesco Guardi The Pont Neuf Johan Barthold Jongkind, 1849–50 Venice: The Rialto Workshop of Francesco Guardi Morning, An Overcast Day, Rouen Camille Pissarro, 1896 Campo Santa Maria Zobenigo, Venice Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal), 1730s Rue Eugène Moussoir at Moret: Winter Alfred Sisley, 1891 Pirna: The Obertor from the South Bernardo Bellotto, mid-1750s Piazza San Marco Francesco Guardi, late 1760s Venice from the Bacino di San Marco Francesco Guardi, ca. 1765–75 The Grand Canal above the Rialto Francesco Guardi, late 1760s Campo Sant'Angelo, Venice Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal), 1730s