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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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The Grand Canal and the Church of the Salute df
1730
Oil on canvas, 49,5 x 72,5 cm
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Painting ID:: 5592
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The_Grand_Canal_and_the_Church_of_the_Salute_df
1730
Oil on canvas, 49,5 x 72,5 cm
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
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The Grand Canal and the Church of the Salute (detail) ffg
1730
Oil on canvas
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Painting ID:: 5593
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The_Grand_Canal_and_the_Church_of_the_Salute_(detail)_ffg
1730
Oil on canvas
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
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Piazza San Marco with the Basilica fg
c. 1730
Oil on canvas, 76 x 114,5 cm
Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge
Painting ID:: 5594
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Piazza_San_Marco_with_the_Basilica_fg
c. 1730
Oil on canvas, 76 x 114,5 cm
Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge
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Piazza San Marco f
c. 1730
Oil on canvas, 68,6 x 112,4 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Painting ID:: 5595
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Piazza_San_Marco_f
c. 1730
Oil on canvas, 68,6 x 112,4 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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View of the Ducal Palace f
c. 1730
Oil on canvas
El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso
Painting ID:: 5597
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View_of_the_Ducal_Palace_f
c. 1730
Oil on canvas
El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso
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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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