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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:: 5125
Dresden, the Frauenkirche and the Rampische Gasse
1749-53
Oil on canvas, 193 x 186 cm
Gemäldegalerie, Dresden
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Painting ID:: 5126
New Market Square in Dresden
1750
Oil on canvas, 136 x 236 cm
Gemäldegalerie, Dresden
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Painting ID:: 5127
New Market Square in Dresden from the Jdenhof
1749-51
Oil on canvas, 136 x 236 cm
Gemäldegalerie, Dresden
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Painting ID:: 5128
Zwinger Waterway
1750
Oil on canvas, 133 x 235 cm
Gemäldegalerie, Dresden
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Painting ID:: 5129
Dresden, the Ruins of the Pirnaische Vorstadt
1762-63
Oil on canvas, 80 x 112 cm
Mus??e des Beaux-Arts, Troyes
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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: | Cornelis Bol | John William Hill | Elizabeth Louise Vigee Le Brun | Henri Rousseau | j. beraud |
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