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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
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Alexander Pope, Canaletto A View of the Thames, Canaletto in England, Charles Dickens, Dr. Samuel Johnson, George Vertue, Henry Fielding, James Gibbs design, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Morton's Tower London, Nicholas Hawksmoor, Owen McSwiney, Robert Griffier painter, the Adams brothers design, Westminster Bridge, William Hogarth
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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
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Alexander Pope, Canaletto, Canaletto A View of the Thames, Canaletto in England, Charles Beddington curator, Charles de Brosses, Charles James Fox, Edward Dayes water colorist, George Vertue, Henry Fielding, Owen McSwiney, Robert Griffier painter, Samuel Scott painter, Thomas Chippendale furniture, Thomas Hill tutor Duke of Richmond, War of Austrian Succession
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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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Tagged Canaletto, Canaletto in England, Catchpenny prints, Edward Dayes water colorist, Ferdinand Philip 6th Prince Lobkowicz, Frederick Earl of Carlisle, George Vertue, Madame Pickwick, Robert Griffier painter, Samuel Scott painter, Thomas Hill tutor Duke of Richmond
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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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Tagged Canaletto, Carlevaris painter, Catchpenny prints, Charles de Brosses, Frederick Earl of Carlisle, George Vertue, Giovanni Antonio Canal, John Duke of Bedford, Joseph Smith consul Venice, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Owen McSwiney, Thomas Hill tutor Duke of Richmond, War of the Austrian Succession
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