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These pictures correspond with a number of views of Venetian festivals that Heintz painted, which were of great importance in establishing the basis upon which view-painting was to develop over the next one and a half centuries. Of these festival views, the earliest known examples are The canal at Murano on Ascension Day and the Bullfight in the Campo San Polo in the Correr Museum, Venice, both signed and dated 1648. Also in the Correr Museum are The Patriarch Federico Cornaro at San Pietro di Castello, signed and dated 1649, and The procession to the Redentore over the bridge of boats, unsigned but 'clearly part of the same series' (W.G. Constable, Canaletto, 2nd ed., revised by J.G. Links, Oxford, 1976, I, p. 55). The earliest known example of Heintz's having painted either of the present subjects is The fight between the Nicolotti and the Castellani that was sold at Sotheby's, New York, 11 June 1981, lot 97. A version of The embarkation of the Doge on the Bucintoro on Ascension Day, attributed to Joseph Heintz, was sold at Sotheby's, New York, 6 March 1975, lot 210.
The fight shown here, a guerra dei pugni, was a traditional game played annually between representatives of the city wards Nicolotti and Castellani on the bridge crossing the Rio San Barnaba. The winner had to hold his ward's banner in the centre of the bridge.
The Ascension Day festival in Venice had twofold origins. It commemorated firstly the submission of the Dalmatian cities following the expedition of 997, led by Doge Pietro Orseolo II, and secondly the symbolic gift of a ring given to Doge Sebastiano Ziani by Pope Alexander III after the Pope's reconciliation with the Emperor Frederick Barbarossa in 1177. In the festival, the Doge, reciting the words 'con quest' annello ti spoziamo, in attesta della nostra vera e perpetua sovranita', threw a ring into the lagoon to symbolise the marriage of Venice to the sea.
The fight shown here, a guerra dei pugni, was a traditional game played annually between representatives of the city wards Nicolotti and Castellani on the bridge crossing the Rio San Barnaba. The winner had to hold his ward's banner in the centre of the bridge.
The Ascension Day festival in Venice had twofold origins. It commemorated firstly the submission of the Dalmatian cities following the expedition of 997, led by Doge Pietro Orseolo II, and secondly the symbolic gift of a ring given to Doge Sebastiano Ziani by Pope Alexander III after the Pope's reconciliation with the Emperor Frederick Barbarossa in 1177. In the festival, the Doge, reciting the words 'con quest' annello ti spoziamo, in attesta della nostra vera e perpetua sovranita', threw a ring into the lagoon to symbolise the marriage of Venice to the sea.