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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:: 5120
View of the Villa Cagnola at Gazzada near Varese
1744
Oil on canvas, 100 x 65 cm
Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan
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Painting ID:: 5121
View of Gazzada near Varese
1744
Oil on canvas
Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan
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Painting ID:: 5122
View of Turin near the Royal Palace
1745
Oil on canvas, 129,5 x 174 cm
Galleria Sabauda, Turin
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Painting ID:: 5123
The Kreuzkirche in Dresden
1747-56
Oil on canvas, 197 x 187 cm
The Hermitage, St. Petersburg
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Painting ID:: 5124
View of Dresden from the Right Bank of the Elbe with the Augustus Bridge
748
Oil on canvas, 133 x 237 cm
Gemäldegalerie, Dresden
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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: | James Sant | August Xaver Karl von Pettenkofen | Jacopo Zanguidi Bertoia | Charles Dauphin | Elisabeth Geertruida Wassenbergh |
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