Vaprio d'Adda  1744

By carefully staging the sunlight hitting the facades rising above the Adda River, Bellotto picks out the village of Canonica d'Adda at the right and Vaprio at the center. Located northeast of Milan, Vaprio was the site of Villa Melzi, where Leonardo da Vinci visited his pupil Francesco Melzi. On related drawings, Bellotto noted that this painting and its pendant were made...