The painting depicts a watercourse crossed by a bridge almost identical to that of the Windsor view; on the road there is the Palladian basilica, on the right Palazzo Chiericati, both well-known buildings, one public the other private, of Vicenza. The gondolas, the cargo boats, the burchi, the macchiette tell us that we are in Venice, but only the typical curve of the canal, a glimpse of the Fabbriche Nuove, in an anomalous position to the left of the bridge (while they are actually on the right). suggests that the site is Rialto. The covered bridge derives from a table of chapter XIII of the third of the Four Books of Architecture by Andrea Palladio, which the architect indicates as "a stone bridge of my invention", without mentioning Venice. The "veduta conceived", product of the revaluation of Palladianism in the context of that Venetian Enlightenment, which, soon forgotten or distorted the lesson of Alessandro Lodoli, tended to recover the sixteenth-century classicism, is of problematic dating.