MORE than 230 years after his death, Venetian painter Canaletto is helping to
save his beloved city from the sea.
ÒÁÈ˾þÃs have discovered that his highly accurate paintings of 18th century
Venice record sea levels a century and a half before sophisticated measuring
began. They hope it will help them to save Venice and its rich cultural heritage
from crumbling beneath the waves.
Venice is built on a lagoon in the Adriatic Sea, making it highly vulnerable
to changing sea levels brought on by global warming, a problem made worse by the
fact that the city itself is subsiding. Last…
