Canaletto

1697–1768 · Republic of Venice · Rococo

Giovanni Antonio Canal (18 October 1697 – 19 April 1768), commonly known as Canaletto (Italian:), was an Italian painter from the Republic of Venice, considered an important member of the 18th-century Venetian school. Wikipedia

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Crisp, sunlit views of Venice — canals, gondolas, palaces — with precise architecture and blue skies.

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Works

“The Stonemason's Yard”, 1725 — National Gallery
“The Bucintore Returning to the Molo on Ascension Day”, 1729 — Pushkin Museum
“Arrival of the French Ambassador in Venice”, 1727 — Hermitage Museum
“View of the Bacino di San Marco from the Punta della Dogana”, 1743 — Pinacoteca di Brera
“The Entrance to the Grand Canal, Venice”, 1730 — Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
“The Piazza San Marco in Venice”, 1723 — Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum
“La Punta della Dogana”, 1726 — Kunsthistorisches Museum
“The Grand Canal in Venice”, 1736 — Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon
“A Regatta on the Grand Canal”, 1740s — National Gallery
“View of the Grand Canal”, 1727 — Uffizi Gallery
“Capriccio: a Palladian Design for the Rialto Bridge, with Buildings at Vicenza”, 1750s — Galleria nazionale di Parma
“Pra' della Valle in Padua”, 1743 — Museo Poldi Pezzoli
“The Molo, Seen from the Bacino di San Marco”, 1720s — Louvre
“Perspective View with Portico”, 1765 — Gallerie dell'Accademia
“London: Interior of the Rotunda at Ranelagh”, 1754 — National Gallery
“Eton College”, 1746 — National Gallery
“A View of Walton Bridge”, 1754 — Dulwich Picture Gallery
“Venice: The Feast Day of Saint Roch”, 1735 — National Gallery
“The Grand Canal in Venice from Palazzo Flangini to Campo San Marcuola”, 1738 — J. Paul Getty Museum
“London: the Old Horse Guards from St James's Park”, 1749 — Tate
“The Grand Canal from San Vio, Venice”, 1723 — Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum
“The Bucintoro at the Molo on Ascension Day”, 1740 — Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli
“London: Seen Through an Arch of Westminster Bridge”, 1746
“London: Westminster Abbey, with a Procession of Knights of the Bath”, 1749 — Westminster Abbey
“The Grand Canal and Santa Maria della Salute”, 1740
“St. Paul's Cathedral”, 1754 — Yale Center for British Art
“London: Northumberland House”, 1752
“Rome: The Arch of Septimius Severus”, 1742 — Royal Collection
“The Grand Walk, Vauxhall Gardens, London”, 1751 — Compton Verney Art Gallery
“A View of Dolo on the Brenta Canal”, 1727 — Ashmolean Museum
“Venice: The Upper Reaches of the Grand Canal with S. Simeone Piccolo”, 1740 — National Gallery
“London: Greenwich Hospital from the North Bank of the Thames”, 1753 — Royal Museums Greenwich
“Bucintoro at the Molo on Ascension Day”, 1760 — Dulwich Picture Gallery
“The Bucintoro”, 1745–1750 — Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum
“Warwick Castle, East Front from the Courtyard”, 1752 — Birmingham Museums Trust
“The Grand Canal near the Rialto, Looking North”, 1725 — Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli
“Capriccio with Classical Ruins and Buildings”, 1768 — Gallerie dell'Accademia
“Capriccio with Ruins and Porta Portello, Padua”, 1768 — Gallerie dell'Accademia
“Santi Giovanni e Paolo and the Scuola di San Marco”, 1725 — Dresden State Art Collections
“A View of Greenwich from the River”, 1752 — Tate

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