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San Cristoforo, San Michele Murano
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San_Cristoforo,_San_Michele_Murano
1725-30
Dallas Museum of Art
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Capriccio, The Horses of San Marco in the Piazzetta
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Capriccio,_The_Horses_of_San_Marco_in_the_Piazzetta
1743
Royal Collection
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Veduta del Palazzo Ducale
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Veduta_del_Palazzo_Ducale
1735
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence
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Capriccio, A Colonnade opening onto the Courtyard of a Palace
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Capriccio,_A_Colonnade_opening_onto_the_Courtyard_of_a_Palace
1765
Accademia, Venive
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Ranelagh, the Interior of the Rotunda
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Ranelagh,_the_Interior_of_the_Rotunda
1754
National Gallery, London
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Canaletto
Italian Rococo Era Painter, 1697-1768
Italian painter, etcher and draughtsman. He was the most distinguished Italian view painter of the 18th century. Apart from ten years spent in England he lived in Venice, and his fame rests above all on his views (vedute) of that city; some of these are purely topographical, others include festivals or ceremonial events. He also painted imaginary views (capriccios), although the demarcation between the real and the invented is never quite clearcut: his imaginary views often include realistically depicted elements, though in unexpected surroundings, and in a sense even his Venetian vedute are imaginary. He never merely re-created reality. He was highly successful with the English, helped in this by the British connoisseur JOSEPH SMITH, whose own large collection of Canaletto works was sold to King George III in 1762. The British Royal Collection has the largest group of his paintings and drawings. |
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