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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: from venice to the thames

Canaletto’s iconic painting, A View of the Thames from Lambeth Palace is a picture perfect postcard, but behind this idyllic view of eighteenth century London was simply too pleasant. Only a tourist could believe it. In fact, much was happening … Continue reading

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canaletto: sunny afternoon

Canaletto in London…. The picture is so pleasant, as a matter of fact,that only a tourist could believe it. The eighteenth-century was, above all, a time of wrenching contrast between rich and poor; of starvation, riots, soaring death rates; a … 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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