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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:: 5613
Capriccio: Ruins and Classic Buildings ds
1730s
Oil on canvas, 87,5 x 120,5 cm
Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan
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Painting ID:: 5614
Venice Viewed from the San Giorgio Maggiore ds
Oil on canvas, 77 x 97 cm
Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt
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Painting ID:: 5615
The Feast Day of St Roch fd
c. 1735
Oil on canvas, 147,5 x 199,5 cm
National Gallery, London
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Painting ID:: 5616
The Feast Day of St Roch (detail) f
c. 1735
Oil on canvas
National Gallery, London
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Painting ID:: 5617
Campo Santa Maria Formosa g
c. 1735
Oil on canvas, 47 x 80 cm
Private collection
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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: | BEGAS, Carl the Elder | Haberle John | Amaldus Clarin Nielsen | Frans van Leemputten | Jan Kobell |
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