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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:: 5628
The Molo and the Riva degli Schiavoni from the Bacino di San Marco
1740
Oil on canvas, 46,5 x 63 cm
Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo
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Painting ID:: 5629
The Bucintore Returning to the Molo on Ascension Day
c. 1740
Oil on canvas, 187 x 259 cm
Pushkin Museum, Moscow
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Painting ID:: 5630
The Molo with the Library and the Entrance to the Grand Canal f
c. 1740
Oil on canvas, 110,5 x 185,5 cm
Private collection
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Painting ID:: 5631
Rome: The Arch of Constantine ffg
1742
Oil on canvas, 181,5 x 103 cm
Royal Collection, Windsor
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Painting ID:: 5632
Rome: The Arch of Constantine (detail) fd
1742
Oil on canvas
Royal Collection, Windsor
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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: | Anicet-Charles-Gabriel Lemonnier | Worthington Whittredge | MAITANI, Lorenzo | Johann Heinrich Roos | William Hamilton |
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