WITTEL, Caspar Andriaans van
Dutch Baroque Era Painter, ca.1653-1736 Related Paintings of WITTEL, Caspar Andriaans van :. | The Island of San Michele, Looking toward Murano | The Castel Sant Angelo from the South | The Piazzetta from the Bacino di San Marco | View of Naples | Il Molo e la Piazzetta (mk21) | Related Artists: BELLOTTO, BernardoItalian Rococo Era Painter, ca.1721-1780
Bernardo Bellotto (30 January 1720 ?C 17 October 1780) was an Italian urban landscape painter or vedutista, and printmaker in etching famous for his vedutes of European cities (Dresden, Vienna, Turin and Warsaw). He was the pupil and nephew of Canaletto and sometimes used the latter's illustrious name, signing himself as Bernardo Canaletto ?? fraudulently, according to some. Especially in Germany, paintings attributed to Canaletto may actually be by Bellotto rather than by his uncle; in Poland, they are by Bellotto, who is known there as "Canaletto".
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. Jakob Bogdani1660-1724 riesener
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