Italian Rococo Era Painter, C.1721-1780
Italian painter and draughtsman. He was a view painter who worked in Italy and later at the courts of Dresden, Vienna, Munich and Warsaw. The nephew and almost certainly the pupil of Canaletto, outside Italy he signed his works de Canaletto and hence became known as Canaletto. He painted both topographical and imaginary views in a style independent of his uncle's, distinguished by cold colour and by the austere geometry of architectural masses. Related Paintings of Bernardo Bellotto :. | La Piazza della Signoria a Firenze | View of Warsaw from the Praga bank | The Blue Palace. | Scuola of San Marco | Square with the Kreuz Kirche in Dresden | Related Artists: Wilhem Drost painted Portrait of a man in 1653 or 1655 Luca Penni Florence 1500/04-Paris 1557 dahlstrom 1806-1869