Artists

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  Capriccio with the Colosseum $AU 259.90 ~ 1,266.00
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  Vienna, the Lobkowitzplatz $AU 245.28 ~ 1,383.10
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  View of Warsaw from the Royal Palace $AU 228.82 ~ 3,290.71

Bernardo Bellotto (1721 Vencie-1780 Warsaw) stands as one of the most important Venetian painters of the 18th century. He is also called Canaletto, as is his uncle and teacher, Antonio Canal, who greatly influenced his early work. From 1742 to 1745 he travelled through Italy, then worked at the Saxon court in Dresden from 1747. He remained there, with brief interruptions, until 1767, having become a teacher at the Academy in 1764. In 1768 he became the court painter of King Stanislaus II (1732-1798) of Poland and settled in Warsaw for the rest of his life. By the 1740s Bellotto had developed his own style characterised by great topological exactness, precise architectural perspective and cool, pale colouring. As well as vedute (detailed views of a city or landscape) and capricci (imagined combinations of buildings and landscapes), he also painted historical and genre scenes. Amongst the artist's works are The Sun Stone above Prima, c. 1755, Gemaldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden; Panorama of Warsaw with the Vitula River, 1770, Natinalmuseum, Warsaw; and The Dominican Church in Vienna, 1772, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.