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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: not quite picture perfect
Canaletto in London in 1746. He painted A View of the Thames from Lambeth Palace; the best of cities on a sparkling summer day. But what was really happening behind those walls and in those narrow streets on that sunny … 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 de Brosses, David Garrick, Dr. Samuel Johnson, Henry Fielding, James Gibbs, Mrs. Cibber, Nicholas Hawksmoor, Owen McSwiney, Peg Woffington, Ranelagh gardens London, Robert Griffier painter, the Adam brothers design, Tobias George Smollet, Wedgewood pottery
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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 and London: a bit too postcard perfect
The best of cities, in the best of seasons. But what was really happening behind those walls and in those narrow streets on that sunny afternoon. After all, the picture is just too pleasant. Only a tourist could believe it. … Continue reading
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
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
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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postcard from london
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
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Canaletto, Carlevaris, Catchpenny prints, Duke of Richmond, Ferdinand Filip, Giovanni Antonio Canal, Lewis Walpole, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Owen McSwiney, The Grand Tour, The Grand Tour Venice
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