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canaletto: one sunny afternoon

Twas’ a sunny day. Canaletto in London. He painted, in 1746, his A View of the Thames from Lambeth Palce; the city of London as it looked on that sparkling summer day in the middle of the eighteenth century. We … Continue reading

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canaletto in London: one picture tells many stories

Canaletto’s picture perfect painting for postcard tourist reproduction was just a bit too idyllic and ideal. He painted a View From the Thames from Lambeth Palace on a sparkling summer day in the middle of the eighteenth century. But what … Continue reading

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canaletto: picture perfect postcard

…The rumor went around town that this painter was not the real Canaletto, that the real Canaletto had stayed in Venice, or else that some assistant was working for him in London “in makeing or filling up his pieces…of works … Continue reading

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canaletto : the “vedutes”

A postcard from London.. …In 1739, the French scholar Charles de Brosses summed up both Canaletto’s talents and career in a letter to a friend: “Sa maniere est claire, gaie,vive…et d’un detail admirable…” Nearly all of the work Canaletto did … Continue reading

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