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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:: 22769
Piazza S.Marco verso la basilica,dall'angolo nord-oves (mk21)
1760 ca
Olio su tela 46.5 x 38 cm
The National Gallery,Londra
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Painting ID:: 22770
Festa notturna alla chiesa di S.Pietro di Castello (mk21)
1758 ca
Olio su tela
Gemaldegalerie,Staatliche Museen zu Berlin-Preui-Scher Kulturbesitz,Berlino (prestito della Fondazione Streit)
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Painting ID:: 22771
Panorama di Londra attraverso un arcata del ponte di Westminster (mk21)
1747 ca
Olio su tela,57 x 95 cm
Collection of the Duke of Northumberland,Londra
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Painting ID:: 22772
Il Tamigi col ponte di Westminster nel fondo (mk21)
1746
Olio su tela 118 x 238 cm
Collezione Roudnice Lobkowitz,Castello Nelahozeves Praga
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Painting ID:: 22773
Campo SS.Apostoli (mk21)
1735-1740
Olio su tela 45 x 77.5 cm
Collezione privatea,Milano
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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: | Girolamo Genga | Henry Scott Tuke | ROSA, Salvator | NEEFFS, Pieter the Elder | Johann Henrich Wedekind |
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