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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:: 5608
View of the Entrance to the Arsenal df
c. 1732
Oil on canvas, 47 x 78,8 cm
Private collection
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Painting ID:: 5609
View of the Entrance to the Arsenal (detail) s
c. 1732
Oil on canvas
Private collection
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Painting ID:: 5610
The Piazzetta g
1733-35
Oil on canvas, 68,6 x 91,5 cm
Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, Rome
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Painting ID:: 5611
Dolo on the Brenta df
c. 1730-35
Oil on canvas, 80,5 x 96,5 cm
Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart
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Painting ID:: 5612
View of the Bacino di San Marco (St Mark s Basin)
1730-35
Oil on canvas, 53,5 x 71 cm
Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan
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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: | Pieter van laer | Fernando Yanez | william henry hunt,o.w.s | Victor-Jules Genisson | Jan Bogumil Plersch |
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