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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:: 5572
Rio dei Mendicanti: Looking South
c. 1725
Oil on canvas, 69,5 x 97,5 cm
Gemäldegalerie, Dresden
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Painting ID:: 5573
Grand Canal: Looking North-East toward the Rialto Bridge ffg
c. 1725
Oil on canvas, 146 x 234 cm
Gemäldegalerie, Dresden
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Painting ID:: 5574
Grand Canal: Looking North-East toward the Rialto Bridge (detail) d
c. 1725
Oil on canvas
Gemäldegalerie, Dresden
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Painting ID:: 5575
Entrance to the Grand Canal: Looking East
c. 1725
Oil on canvas, 65 x 98 cm
Gemäldegalerie, Dresden
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Painting ID:: 5576
Santi Giovanni e Paolo and the Scuola di San Marco fdg
c. 1725
Oil on canvas, 125 x 165 cm
Gemäldegalerie, Dresden
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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: | Barbara Bodichon | Eugenio Lucas Velazquez | Edward Simmons | Palace of Versailles | Ivan Aivazovski |
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