Italian 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.  Related Paintings of BELLOTTO, Bernardo :. | The Ruins of the Old Kreuzkirche in Dresden gfh | View of the Grand Canal at San Stae | View of Warsaw from the Royal Palace (detail) fh | New Market Square in Dresden from the Jdenhof | Vienna, the Lobkowitzplatz |
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Benjamin Vautier
painted Kinder beim Mittagessen in 1857
BRESCIANINO, Andrea del
Italian painter (b. ca. 1487, Ferrara, d. after 1524, Ferrara)
CAGNACCI, Guido
Italian Baroque Era Painter, 1601-1681