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BELLOTTO, Bernardo
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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Painting ID:: 5115
The Scuola of San Marco gh
1738-40
Oil on canvas, 42 x 69 cm
Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice
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Painting ID:: 5116
View of the Grand Canal at San Stae
1738-40
Oil on canvas, 70,5 x 126,5 cm
Private collection
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Painting ID:: 5117
The Piazza della Signoria in Florence
c. 1742
Oil on canvas, 61 x 90 cm
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
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Painting ID:: 5118
Capriccio with the Colosseum
1743-44
Oil on canvas
Galleria Nazionale, Parma
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Painting ID:: 5119
Capriccio of the Capitol
1743-44
Oil on canvas
Galleria Nazionale, Parma
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BELLOTTO, Bernardo
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.
. Related Artists to BELLOTTO, Bernardo: | Adria Gual-Queralt | Matthys Naiveu | Mihaly Zichy | Viktor Vasnetsov | Frank Duveneck |
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