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Canaletto
Italian Rococo Era Painter, 1697-1768
Italian painter, etcher and draughtsman. He was the most distinguished Italian view painter of the 18th century. Apart from ten years spent in England he lived in Venice, and his fame rests above all on his views (vedute) of that city; some of these are purely topographical, others include festivals or ceremonial events. He also painted imaginary views (capriccios), although the demarcation between the real and the invented is never quite clearcut: his imaginary views often include realistically depicted elements, though in unexpected surroundings, and in a sense even his Venetian vedute are imaginary. He never merely re-created reality. He was highly successful with the English, helped in this by the British connoisseur JOSEPH SMITH, whose own large collection of Canaletto works was sold to King George III in 1762. The British Royal Collection has the largest group of his paintings and drawings.
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Painting ID:: 5561
Rio dei Mendicanti (detail) s
1723-24
Oil on canvas
Museo del Settecento Veneziano, Ca' Rezzonico, Venice
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Painting ID:: 5562
The Rio dei Mendicanti (detail)
1723-24
Oil on canvas
Museo del Settecento Veneziano, Ca' Rezzonico, Venice
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Painting ID:: 5563
Grand Canal, Looking Northeast from Palazo Balbi toward the Rialto Bridge
1723-24
Oil on canvas, 144 x 207 cm
Museo del Settecento Veneziano, Ca' Rezzonico, Venice
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Painting ID:: 5564
Grand Canal, Looking East from the Campo San Vio
1723-24
Oil on canvas, 140,5 x 204,5 cm
Thyssen Bornemisza Collection, Madrid
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Painting ID:: 5565
Grand Canal, Looking East from the Campo San Vio (detail) fd
1723-24
Oil on canvas
Thyssen Bornemisza Collection, Madrid
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Canaletto
Italian Rococo Era Painter, 1697-1768
Italian painter, etcher and draughtsman. He was the most distinguished Italian view painter of the 18th century. Apart from ten years spent in England he lived in Venice, and his fame rests above all on his views (vedute) of that city; some of these are purely topographical, others include festivals or ceremonial events. He also painted imaginary views (capriccios), although the demarcation between the real and the invented is never quite clearcut: his imaginary views often include realistically depicted elements, though in unexpected surroundings, and in a sense even his Venetian vedute are imaginary. He never merely re-created reality. He was highly successful with the English, helped in this by the British connoisseur JOSEPH SMITH, whose own large collection of Canaletto works was sold to King George III in 1762. The British Royal Collection has the largest group of his paintings and drawings.
. Related Artists to Canaletto: | Lydia Field Emmet | Nils Andersson | John Liston Byam Shaw | Ivan Aivazovsky | Jakob Emil Schindler |
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