Bernardo Bellotto
Precise, somber European cityscapes
Bernardo Bellotto, was an Italian urban landscape painter or vedutista, and printmaker in etching famous for his vedute of European cities (Dresden, Vienna, Turin, and Warsaw). He was the student and nephew of the famous Giovanni Antonio Canal Canaletto and sometimes used the latter’s illustrious name, signing himself as Bernardo Canaletto. In Germany and Poland, Bellotto called himself by his uncle’s name, Canaletto. This caused some confusion, however Bellotto’s work is more sombre in color than Canatello’s and his depiction of clouds and shadows brings him closer to Dutch painting. Bellotto’s style was characterized by elaborate representation of architectural and natural vistas, and by the specific quality of each place’s lighting. It is plausible that Bellotto, and other Venetian masters of vedute, may have used the camera obscura in order to achieve superior precision of urban views.
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Artworks by this artist (33 total)
- The Marketplace at Pirna 1760s
- Dresden from the Right Bank of the Elbe, below the Augustus Bridge c.1750
- The Lock at Dolo ca. 1745
- Le turc genereux, ballet pantomime executé à Vienne sur le teatre près de la cour le 26 avril, 1758 1759
- Stable boy leading a horse 1773
- View of Via di Ripetta in Rome 1742 - 1744
- Venice, A View Of The Molo, Looking West, With The Palazzo Ducale And South Side Of The Piazzetta
- The Fishermen’s Village at Pirna
- Dresden from the Right Bank of the Elbe, above the Augustus Bridge c.1750
- Landscape capriccio with classical and medieval motifs and some buildings from Dresden
- Vaprio d’Adda 1744
- Miodowa Street in Warsaw 1777
- Pirna; The Obertor from the South mid-1750s
- Venice, the Grand Canal with the Rialto Bridge seen from the South
- View of Pirna with the Fortress of Sonnenstein 1755-65
- View of Verona with the Ponte delle Navi 1745-1747
- Dresden seen from the Right Bank of the Elbe, beneath the Augusts Bridge 1748
- Venice, The Grand Canal looking North from the Rialto Bridge 18th century
- Piazza San Marco, Venice c. 1740
- Self-portrait in the attire of the Venetian Procurator 1765