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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:: 5567
The Grand Canal with the Rialto Bridge in the Background fd
1724-25
Oil on canvas, 146 x 234 cm
Gemäldegalerie, Dresden
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Painting ID:: 5568
The Grand Canal with the Rialto Bridge in the Background (detail)
1724-25
Oil on canvas
Gemäldegalerie, Dresden
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Painting ID:: 5569
The Grand Canal near the Ponte di Rialto sdf
1725
Oil on canvas, 90,5 x 134,6 cm
Private collection
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Painting ID:: 5570
The Grand Canal from Rialto toward the North
1725
Oil on canvas, 89,5 x 131,5 cm
Private collection
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Painting ID:: 5571
Doge Palace d
c. 1725
Oil on canvas, 65 x 86 cm
Columbia Museum of Art, Columbus
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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: | Johan Christoffer Boklund | Steven van Herwijck | Frederic Remington | LELY, Sir Peter | Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema,OM.RA,RWS |
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