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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:: 5130
The Ruins of the Old Kreuzkirche in Dresden gfh
1765
Oil on canvas
Gemäldegalerie, Dresden
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Painting ID:: 5131
Dresden, the Ruins of the Pirnaische Vorstadt kinxt
1766
Etching
Private collection
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Painting ID:: 5132
Vienna, the Lobkowitzplatz
1759-60
Oil on canvas, 115 x 152 cm
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
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Painting ID:: 5133
Vienna, Panorama from Palais Kaunitz ffg
1759-60
Oil on canvas, 134 x 237 cm
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
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Painting ID:: 5134
View of Vienna from the Belvedere hjhk
1759-60
Oil on canvas, 135 x 213 cm
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
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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: | Francois Louis Thomas Francia | Alexei Korzukhin | Jan van Bijlert | Frederik de Moucheron | John William Casilear |
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