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Canaletto began his career as a theatrical scene painter, like his father, in the Baroque tradition. Influenced by Giovanni Panini, he is specialised in vedute (views) of Venice, his birth place. Strong contrast between light and shadow is typical of this artist. Furthermore, if some of those views are purely topographical, others include festivals or ceremonial subjects. He also published, thanks to John Smith, his agent, a series of etchings of Cappricci. His main purchasers were British aristocracy because his views reminded them of their Grand Tour. In his paintings geometrical perspective and colours are structuring. Canaletto spent ten years in England. John Smith sold Canaletto's works to George III, creating the major part of the Royal Canaletto Collection. His greatest works influenced landscape painting in the nineteenth century.
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Table of contents
1CANALETTO CANALETTO
233 Ter – 33 Bis Mac Dinh Chi St.
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4No boat moves.
5And the knight’s
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6Venice during the Eighteenth Century
7Venetian Society
8François Joachim de Pierre de Bernis.
9Oil on canvas, 114.5 x 153.5 cm.
10National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
11behaviour and wish for power.
12Oil on canvas, 57.2 x 92.7 cm.
13Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Berlin.
14Il Carnavale
15San Giorgio Maggiore, c. 1750.
16Raleigh.
17Pencil and ink, 26.6 x 36.7 cm.
18Private Collection.
19Oil on copperplate, 43 x 58.5 cm.
20The Nobility
21Aldo Crespi Collection, Milan.
22decrepitude at least from ridicule and shame.
23Theatrical Arts, Poetry and Painting
24Oil on canvas, 147.7 x 199.4 cm.
25Private Collection.
26with bare-faced actors, farces and gesticulatory plays with morality plays.
27Oil on canvas, 56.5 x 102.9 cm.
28Procuratie Nuove, c. 1745.
29The National Gallery, London.
30Oil on canvas, 73.5 x 94.5 cm.
31Oil on canvas, 46.4 x 37.8 cm.
32The Royal Collection, London.
33and helmet because of his role as Defender of the Faith.
34Canaletto: His Talent and Training
35His Origins and Youth
36relinquish nor diminish.
37The Barnes Foundation, Merion.
38Pencil and ink, 27.1 x 37.4 cm.
39National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
40phantasmagoric palaces and huge forests with delightful vistas of fantastic, dreamlike lands.
41iconography collectors.
42His Beginnings and Rome
43sights, views, perspectives, aspects, landscapes, characters, figures and scenery that his
44sun and its beauty just as picturesque from any point of view.
45Oil on canvas.
46Tokyo Fuji Art Museum, Tokyo.
47Oil on canvas, 31.4 x 40.3 cm.
48Oil on canvas, 53 x 66.7 cm.
49The Royal Collection, London.
50gaze with light, colour, and life.