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San Cristoforo, San Michele Murano Painting ID:: 301
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Canaletto San Cristoforo, San Michele Murano 1725-30
Dallas Museum of Art
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Capriccio, The Horses of San Marco in the Piazzetta Painting ID:: 302
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Canaletto Capriccio, The Horses of San Marco in the Piazzetta 1743
Royal Collection
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Veduta del Palazzo Ducale Painting ID:: 303
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Canaletto Veduta del Palazzo Ducale 1735
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence
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Capriccio, A Colonnade opening onto the Courtyard of a Palace Painting ID:: 304
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Canaletto Capriccio, A Colonnade opening onto the Courtyard of a Palace 1765
Accademia, Venive
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Ranelagh, the Interior of the Rotunda Painting ID:: 305
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Canaletto Ranelagh, the Interior of the Rotunda 1754
National Gallery, London
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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. |
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