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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:: 5603
Grand Canal: from Santa Maria della Carit to the Bacino di San Marco d
1730-33
Oil on canvas, 47,9 x 80 cm
Royal Collection, Windsor
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Painting ID:: 5604
A Regatta on the Grand Canal d
c. 1732
Oil on canvas, 77 x 126 cm
Royal Collection, Windsor
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Painting ID:: 5605
Return of the Bucentoro to the Molo on Ascension Day d
c. 1732
Oil on canvas, 77 x 126 cm
Royal Collection, Windsor
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Painting ID:: 5606
Return of the Bucentoro to the Molo on Ascension Day (detail) fd
c. 1732
Oil on canvas
Royal Collection, Windsor
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Painting ID:: 5607
Return of the Bucentoro to the Molo on Ascension Day (detail) d
c. 1732
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: | Barend Cornelis Koekkoek | Francisco Oller y Cestero | stanley spencer | Master of the Legend of St. Lucy | Hans Olaf Heyerdahl |
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