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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:: 5618
Campo San Rocco bvh
c. 1735
Oil on canvas, 47 x 80 cm
Private collection
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Painting ID:: 5619
Piazza San Marco, Looking toward San Geminiano df
c. 1735
Oil on canvas, 68,5 x 93,5 cm
Galleria Corsini, Rome
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Painting ID:: 5620
The Rialto Bridge from the South fdg
c. 1735
Oil on canvas, 68,5 x 92 cm
Galleria Corsini, Rome
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Painting ID:: 5621
View of the Grand Canal fg
c. 1735
Oil on canvas, 73 x 129 cm
Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne
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Painting ID:: 5622
Piazza San Marco: Looking South-East
1735-40
Oil on canvas, 114,2 x 153,5 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington
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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: | Francois Quesnel | George Henry Hall | ORRENTE, Pedro | William Page | Master of the Housebook |
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