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The Feast Day of St Roch Painting ID:: 40552
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Canaletto The Feast Day of St Roch mk156
c.1735
Oil on canvas
147x199cm
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View from the Right Bank of the Elbe Painting ID:: 40564
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Canaletto View from the Right Bank of the Elbe mk156
1747
Oil on canvas
133x237cm
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The Arrival of the French Ambassador in Venice Painting ID:: 41057
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Canaletto The Arrival of the French Ambassador in Venice mk159
1730s
Oil on canvas
181x259.5cm
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Rio dei Mendicanti Painting ID:: 41177
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Canaletto Rio dei Mendicanti mk157
1723
Collezion M.Crespo.Milan
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The Molo seen against the zecca Painting ID:: 41178
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Canaletto The Molo seen against the zecca mk157
before 1740
Civiche Raccolte d-Arte Antica Castello Sforzesco
Milan
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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::. | Edwaert Collier | Frederick Goodall,R.A | Jan Brueghel The Elder | |
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