Artist: BELLOTTO, Bernardo Painting: Vienna, Panorama from Palais Kaunitz ffg Introduction: 1759-60
Oil on canvas, 134 x 237 cm
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
View of Vienna from the Belvedere hjhk Painting ID:: 5134
Artist: BELLOTTO, Bernardo Painting: View of Vienna from the Belvedere hjhk Introduction: 1759-60
Oil on canvas, 135 x 213 cm
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Italian Rococo Era Painter, ca.1721-1780
Bernardo Bellotto (30 January 1720 ?C 17 October 1780) was an Italian urban landscape painter or vedutista, and printmaker in etching famous for his vedutes of European cities (Dresden, Vienna, Turin and Warsaw). He was the pupil and nephew of Canaletto and sometimes used the latter's illustrious name, signing himself as Bernardo Canaletto ?? fraudulently, according to some. Especially in Germany, paintings attributed to Canaletto may actually be by Bellotto rather than by his uncle; in Poland, they are by Bellotto, who is known there as "Canaletto".
Bellotto's style was characterized by elaborate representation of architectural and natural vistas, and by the specific quality of each place's lighting. It is plausible that Bellotto, and other Venetian masters of vedute, may have used the camera obscura in order to achieve superior precision of urban views.
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