Church of Saints Giovanni and Paolo, Venice Bellotto, Bernardo Architectural illustrations Churches Landscapes Bernardo Bellotto (1720 —1780) was an Italian urban landscape painter or vedutista, and printmaker in etching, famous for his vedutes of European cities (Dresden, Vienna, Turin and Warsaw). He was the pupil and nephew of Canaletto and sometimes used the latter's illustrious name, signing himself as Bernardo Canaletto — fraudulently, according to some. Especially in Germany, paintings attributed to Canaletto may actually be by Bellotto rather than by his uncle; in Poland, they are by Bellotto, who is known there as "Canaletto". Bellotto's style was characterized by elaborate representation of architectural and natural vistas, and by the specific quality of each place's lighting. Like his uncle and many other Venetian masters of vedute, he used the camera obscura in order to achieve the superior precision of his urban views. Davis Publications, Worchester, MA 1740-1741 CE Painting Digital image Oil on canvas Tiff; JPEG2000 Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, MA 18th century; Italian; Rococo Venice, Italy Davis Publications, Worchester, MA
Church of Saints Giovanni and Paolo, Venice
Bellotto, Bernardo
Architectural illustrations
Churches
Landscapes
Bernardo Bellotto (1720 —1780) was an Italian urban landscape painter or vedutista, and printmaker in etching, famous for his vedutes of European cities (Dresden, Vienna, Turin and Warsaw). He was the pupil and nephew of Canaletto and sometimes used the latter's illustrious name, signing himself as Bernardo Canaletto — fraudulently, according to some. Especially in Germany, paintings attributed to Canaletto may actually be by Bellotto rather than by his uncle; in Poland, they are by Bellotto, who is known there as "Canaletto". Bellotto's style was characterized by elaborate representation of architectural and natural vistas, and by the specific quality of each place's lighting. Like his uncle and many other Venetian masters of vedute, he used the camera obscura in order to achieve the superior precision of his urban views.
Davis Publications, Worchester, MA
1740-1741 CE
Painting
Digital image
Oil on canvas
Tiff; JPEG2000
Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, MA
18th century; Italian; Rococo
Venice, Italy
Davis Publications, Worchester, MA