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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:: 5689
The Dead Christ Supported by an Angel df
1646-52
Oil on canvas, 178 x 121 cm
Museo del Prado, Madrid
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Painting ID:: 5690
Eve ffg
1666-67
Wood
Cathedral, Granada
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Painting ID:: 5691
Immaculate Conception s
1648
Oil on canvas
Provincial Museum, Vitoria
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Painting ID:: 5692
Descent into Limbo sdf
c. 1640
Oil on canvas
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
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Painting ID:: 5693
Mary f
1646-50
Oil on canvas, 49 x 43 cm
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
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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: | Gwen John | HIGHMORE, Joseph | Thomas Cooper Gotch | Pieter Janssens Elinga | Henri Pierre Danloux |
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