Tag Archives: Giovanni Antonio Canal

canaletto : the “vedutes”

Posted on September 15, 2012 by Dave

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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postcard from london

Posted on September 14, 2012 by Dave

To treat one of the best works of one of Italy’s finest eighteenth-century painters as a mere tourist’s memento of a London holiday- as no more than a picture postcard- must seem callous indeed. However, Canaletto’s art was exactly that … Continue reading →

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THE BRIDGE OF SIGHS: Stranded in Venice

Posted on January 4, 2011 by Dave

For a thousand years Venice held, “the gorgeous east in fee” and set its own terms for the West. Then Napoleon saw a bluff…and called it…. In Venice’s finest years she was a hard, unyielding, brilliant sort of state; an … Continue reading →