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The Molo and the Riva degli Schiavoni from the Bacino di San Marco Painting ID:: 5628
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Canaletto The Molo and the Riva degli Schiavoni from the Bacino di San Marco 1740
Oil on canvas, 46,5 x 63 cm
Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo
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The Bucintore Returning to the Molo on Ascension Day Painting ID:: 5629
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Canaletto The Bucintore Returning to the Molo on Ascension Day c. 1740
Oil on canvas, 187 x 259 cm
Pushkin Museum, Moscow
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The Molo with the Library and the Entrance to the Grand Canal f Painting ID:: 5630
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Canaletto The Molo with the Library and the Entrance to the Grand Canal f c. 1740
Oil on canvas, 110,5 x 185,5 cm
Private collection
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Rome: The Arch of Constantine ffg Painting ID:: 5631
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Canaletto Rome: The Arch of Constantine ffg 1742
Oil on canvas, 181,5 x 103 cm
Royal Collection, Windsor
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Rome: The Arch of Constantine (detail) fd Painting ID:: 5632
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Canaletto Rome: The Arch of Constantine (detail) fd 1742
Oil on canvas
Royal Collection, Windsor
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Canaletto
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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::. | Alphonse-Marie-Adolphe de Neuville | DERUET, Claude | Master of the Housebook | |
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