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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:: 5643
Arrival of the French Ambassador in Venice (detail) d
1740s
Oil on canvas, 181 x 259,5 cm
The Hermitage, St. Petersburg
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Painting ID:: 5644
Capriccio: The Grand Canal, with an Imaginary Rialto Bridge and Other Buildings fg
1740s
Oil on canvas, 60 x 82 cm
Galleria Nazionale, Parma
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Painting ID:: 5645
Capriccio: a Palladian Design for the Rialto Bridge, with Buildings at Vicenza
1740s
Oil on canvas, 60,5 x 82 cm
Galleria Nazionale, Parma
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Painting ID:: 5646
London: Westminster Bridge from the North on Lord Mayor s Day
1746
Oil on canvas, 96 x 137,5 cm
Yale Center for British Art, New Haven
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Painting ID:: 5647
London: Seen Through an Arch of Westminster Bridge df
1746-47
Oil on canvas, 57 x 95 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: | Alexei Korzukhin | LIPPI, Fra Filippo | Antonio Ciseri | Christian Mali | PESELLINO |
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