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The Piazzetta to the South f Painting ID:: 5669
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Canaletto The Piazzetta to the South f 1720s
Drawing
Royal Collection, Windsor
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The Grand Canal Seen from Rialto toward the North ff Painting ID:: 5670
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Canaletto The Grand Canal Seen from Rialto toward the North ff 1725
Pen and brown ink on paper
Private collection
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The Grand Canal near the Ponte del Rialto f Painting ID:: 5671
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Canaletto The Grand Canal near the Ponte del Rialto f c. 1725
Pen and brown ink with red and black chalk on paper
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
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The Piazzetta Looking towards S. Maria della Salute ff Painting ID:: 5672
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Canaletto The Piazzetta Looking towards S. Maria della Salute ff 1725-30
Pen and ink over pencil, 233 x 182 mm
Royal Collection, Windsor
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The Piazzetta Looking towards the Torre dell Orologio Painting ID:: 5673
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Canaletto The Piazzetta Looking towards the Torre dell Orologio 1725-30
Pen and ink over pencil, 234 x 180 mm
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::. | Lear, Edward | Gerhard von Kugelgen | Cornelis de Baellieur | |
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