Word: canaletto
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this young man," he says, "the influence of a composite of the work of other great artists from Canaletto to Boudin, but it has a flash of the genius that was to come in later years, and sometimes these early flashes of genius are the man's greatest." Be sides, he adds practically, "there has not been as great an impressionist painting available since World War II. The really great Renoirs are all in museums or foundations...
...lived from 1720 to 1780, it was only this summer at a major exhibition of vedutisti in Venice that the Italian public at long last realized that Bellotto had been a painter of the first rank, worthy of being mentioned in the same breath with his more famous uncle, Canaletto...
Crystalline Visions. Bellotto learned his trade in his uncle's Venetian studio. Canaletto was then one of the most illustrious and successful artists in Europe, leader of the school whose detailed panoramas of Venetian fiestas and parades hung in castles and mansions from Italy to England. In his youth,Bel-lotto aped his uncle's style and signed his canvases "Bernardo Bellotto Canaletto," a quirk that has caused confusion among collectors ever since. But as he matured, he developed a colder, moodier, darker technique...
Polish artistry drew on the resources of Europe. During the early 16th century reign of Sigismund I, Italian Renaissance artists were at work in Poland. Even two centuries later, the most famous master in the country bore the name of Bernardo Bellotto, a nephew of Canaletto. A court painter from 1767 to 1780, he used a camera obscura to obtain perfect perspectives for his city scapes. After the destruction of Warsaw during World War II, his paintings were so accurate that they were used to reconstruct demolished monuments and buildings. The horn of the Wieliczka salt miners, made...
...Venice's once-grand traditions, none seemed destined for a more in glorious end than painting. Not that good painters did not exist. Canaletto and the Guardi brothers turned out thousands of panoramic Venetian views whose impeccable architecture and exquisite plays of light have since delighted generations, while Pietro Longhi mastered a mellow irony to reveal the domestic texture of Venetian life. But it remained for an extraordinarily forceful young artist named Giovanni Battista Tiepolo to ascend that decaying stage and transform shimmer and shadow into one last dramatic moment for Venetian painting...