Ever wonder what London looked like way back in the 1740's? Well, here's an ultra-realistic painting by a dude named Giovanni Antonio Canal. Since his dad, Bernardo Canal, was also a painter, Giovanni became known as Canaletto, or "Little Canal".
He did a sh*tload of paintings in his life, of places all over Europe. The one above, apparently simply called "London" was in a booklet that came with a 4-LP Time-Life boxed set of records called "The Baroque Era", which I've just finished digitalizing.
I'll have more to say about the music once I've listened to it a few times. But for now, I'm simply in awe of Canaletto. Google-Image his name for a bunch of his paintings, and prepare to amazed.
