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Bernardo Bellotto (c. 1721/2 or 30 January 1721 – 17 November 1780), was an Italian urban landscape painter or vedutista, and printmaker in etching famous for his vedute of European cities – Dresden, Vienna, Turin, and Warsaw.
Bernardo Bellotto was a nephew of Canaletto and a master of urban landscape painting. He traveled and worked in Europe, creating vedute of Dresden, Vienna, Warsaw and Rome.
- Italian
- October 17, 1780
- Venice, Italy
Bernardo Bellotto was a vedute (“view”) painter of the Venetian school known for his carefully drawn topographical paintings of central Italian and eastern European cities. Bellotto studied under his uncle, Canaletto, and was himself known by that name when painting outside Italy.
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Bernardo Bellotto. 1722 - 1780. Born in Venice in 1722, Bellotto had a precocious talent. He received his earliest training with his uncle, the celebrated view painter Canaletto, from about 1735 onwards, and was accepted into the Fraglia dei Pittori (Venetian painters’ guild) at the age of just 16. In the 1740s Bellotto travelled extensively ...
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Jan 13, 2012 · CONEGLIANO, ITALY — Bernardo Bellotto was his uncle Canaletto’s most gifted student and, at the beginning of his career, his most adept imitator. Quite a number of pictures once...
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Learn about the life and works of Bernardo Bellotto, a Venetian painter and nephew of Canaletto. Explore his views of Italian and German cities, especially Dresden, where he was a court painter.
