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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:: 5664
San Marco: the Interior f
c. 1755
Oil on canvas, 36,5 x 33,5 cm
Royal Collection, Windsor
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Painting ID:: 5665
Piazza San Marco: Looking East from the North-West Corner f
c. 1760
Oil on canvas, 46,5 x 38 cm
National Gallery, London
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Painting ID:: 5666
La Vigilia di Santa Marta f
c. 1760
Oil on canvas, 119 x 187 cm
Staatliche Museen, Berlin
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Painting ID:: 5667
Perspective fg
1765
Oil on canvas, 131 x 93 cm
Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice
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Painting ID:: 5668
Scala dei Giganti f
1765
Oil on canvas, 42 x 29 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: | Giovanni Biliverti | EYCK, Hubert van | Friedrich Gauermann | PIENEMAN, Jan Willem. | August Hagborg |
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