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)
- Venice, A View Of The Molo, Looking West, With The Palazzo Ducale And South Side Of The Piazzetta
- Venice, the Grand Canal with the Rialto Bridge seen from the South
- Capriccio with Roman monuments, including the Castel Sant’Angelo and Saint Peter’s
- The Ruins of the old Kreuzkirche, Dresden 1765
- Dresden from the Right Bank of the Elbe, above the Augustus Bridge c.1750
- Self-portrait in the attire of the Venetian Procurator 1765
- The Fishermen’s Village at Pirna
- View of Ujazdów and Łazienki 1776
- Dresden from the Right Bank of the Elbe, below the Augustus Bridge c.1750
- View Of The Tiber In Rome With The Castel Sant’angel , 1743 or 1744
- View of Pirna in Saxony
- Miodowa Street in Warsaw 1777
- Architectural Caprice with a Palace 1765-1766
- Piazza San Marco, Venice c. 1740
- View of Grand Canal with the Palazzi Foscari and Moro Lin
- Landscape capriccio with classical and medieval motifs and some buildings from Dresden
- Dresden seen from the Right Bank of the Elbe, beneath the Augusts Bridge 1748
- View of the Grand Canal; Santa Maria della Salute and the Dogana from Campo Santa Maria Zobenigo about 1743
- Venice, The Grand Canal looking North from the Rialto Bridge 18th century
- View of Verona with the Ponte delle Navi 1745-1747