Canaletto
Giovanni Antonio Canal (18 October 1697 – 19 April 1768), commonly known as Canaletto (), was an Italian painter from the Republic of Venice, considered an important member of the 18th-century Venetian school.
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Canaletto was an 18th-century Italian painter from Venice known for his detailed paintings of his city and its canals. He is considered one of the most important artists of the Venetian school during that era.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1697
- Died
- 1768
- Works
- 43
Top works
- Canaletto
- Prospectuum aedium, viarumque insigniorum urbis venetiarum nautico certamine, ac nundinis adiectis
- Canaletto: the etchings
- Canaletto e i vedutisti veneziani
- Urbis Venetiarum prospectus celebriores
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 42
- Total plays
- 60
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Key facts
- Artist.name
- Canaletto
- Artist.image
- Giovanni Antonio Canal.jpg
Works in European collections
36 objects attributed to Canaletto, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
Article
11 sectionsContents
- Early career
- Outdoor painting
- Early and late work
- Work in England
- Market
- Gallery
- Italy
- England
- See also
- References
- External links
Giovanni Antonio Canal (18 October 1697 – 19 April 1768), commonly known as Canaletto (), was an Italian painter from the Republic of Venice, considered an important member of the 18th-century Venetian school.
Painter of cityscapes or vedute, of Venice, Rome, and London, he also painted imaginary views (referred to as capricci), although the demarcation in his works between the real and the imaginary is never quite clearcut. He was further an important printmaker using the etching technique. In the period from 1746 to 1756, he worked in England, where he painted many views of London and other sites, including Warwick Castle and Alnwick Castle. He was highly successful in England, thanks to the British merchant and connoisseur Joseph "Consul" Smith, whose large collection of Canaletto's works was sold to King George III in 1762.
