Slow your roll! Stop scrolling and tell us what catches your eye in this Italian scene: 👥 the people in the foreground, 🏛 the relic of ancient Rome in the background, or... 🐾 the tiny pup on the right? In this painting, Canaletto seems to remark on the gulf between Rome's ancient glory and the city's impoverished state during the 18th century. Seen through the central bay of the Arch of Constantine is the Colosseum, which Canaletto shifted to the left in the interests of compositional design. Figures converse, stroll, or carry out daily chores in the vicinity of these ancient buildings. To the left, a lone man sits on ruins with his back to the viewer, perhaps sketching or writing. Wealthy tourists and their servants laden with goods contrast with the poor Roman natives who have nothing, such as the woman who lies against the arch or the man with a cane at the right. Canaletto specialized in vedute, or views, of Venice that he sold to tourists on the Grand Tour in the 1700s. For...