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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:: 5135
View of Warsaw from the Royal Palace nl
1773
Oil on canvas, 166 x 269 cm
National Museum, Warsaw
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Painting ID:: 5136
View of Warsaw from the Royal Palace (detail) fh
1773
Oil on canvas
National Museum, Warsaw
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Painting ID:: 72566
Self portrait as Venetian ambassador
Date 1760s
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 153 X 114 cm (60.24 X 44.88 in)
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Painting ID:: 91440
Wilanow Palace as seen from north-east
1777(1777)
Medium oil on canvas
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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: | Gellee Claude,dit le Lorrain | Carlos de Haes | Albert goodwin,r.w.s | Francesco Solimena | Michel Bouquet |
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