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    Canaletto was an 18th century Venetian painter known for his realistic views of Venice. While his works were praised for their effortless depiction of visible scenes, Canaletto brought reflective insight and originality to his paintings. Even his most realistic works prioritized artistic considerations over factual accuracy. This book accompanies the first Canaletto exhibition in the United States, examining his career development, technical skills, and major commissions through essays and illustrations of his paintings and drawings, including works from the Royal Collection. It provides insight into Canaletto's masterful skills and the popularity and influence of his Grand Tour scenes.

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    Canaletto was an 18th century Venetian painter known for his realistic views of Venice. While his works were praised for their effortless depiction of visible scenes, Canaletto brought reflective insight and originality to his paintings. Even his most realistic works prioritized artistic considerations over factual accuracy. This book accompanies the first Canaletto exhibition in the United States, examining his career development, technical skills, and major commissions through essays and illustrations of his paintings and drawings, including works from the Royal Collection. It provides insight into Canaletto's masterful skills and the popularity and influence of his Grand Tour scenes.

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    Canaletto was an 18th century Venetian painter known for his realistic views of Venice. While his works were praised for their effortless depiction of visible scenes, Canaletto brought reflective insight and originality to his paintings. Even his most realistic works prioritized artistic considerations over factual accuracy. This book accompanies the first Canaletto exhibition in the United States, examining his career development, technical skills, and major commissions through essays and illustrations of his paintings and drawings, including works from the Royal Collection. It provides insight into Canaletto's masterful skills and the popularity and influence of his Grand Tour scenes.

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    Canaletto was an 18th century Venetian painter known for his realistic views of Venice. While his works were praised for their effortless depiction of visible scenes, Canaletto brought reflective insight and originality to his paintings. Even his most realistic works prioritized artistic considerations over factual accuracy. This book accompanies the first Canaletto exhibition in the United States, examining his career development, technical skills, and major commissions through essays and illustrations of his paintings and drawings, including works from the Royal Collection. It provides insight into Canaletto's masterful skills and the popularity and influence of his Grand Tour scenes.

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    Canaletto

    Baetjer, Katharine, and J. G. Links, with essays by J. G. Links, Michael Levey,


    Francis Haskell, Alessandro Bettagno, and Viola Pemberton-Pigott (1989)
    Publication Details
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    At the beginning of his career Canaletto (1697–1768) painted views of Venice that
    were singled out by the most discerning connoisseurs, and at its peak in the 1730s
    and 1740s he was by far the most successful Italian painter of his day. His work
    has never gone out of fashion, and he is now among the most popular of all Old
    Master painters. Because so much of Canaletto's oeuvre provides effortless
    enjoyment to the viewer, he is sometimes regarded as concerned only with the
    visible world, as opposed to those artists who were inspired by their religion or
    their imagination. However, Canaletto brought as reflective and original an insight
    to his early work as any of his contemporaries, and throughout his career he took
    relief from his normal realism in flights of fantasy and caprice. Even in his
    apparently most realistic pictures of Venice, Padua, and London, artistic
    considerations always took precedence over fact.

    This book accompanies the first exhibition of the work of Canaletto ever held in
    the United States. It follows the course of his career as painter and draftsman and
    reviews the different phases of his technical and artistic development. Canaletto's
    achievement cannot be seen as a whole without assembling a number of paintings and
    drawings still owned by the descendants of those who acquired them in his lifetime.
    Supreme among such collections is that of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II who owns
    the works sold to George III by Canaletto's principal patron, Consul Joseph Smith;
    a large number of these paintings and drawings are illustrated. Among public
    collections, the National Gallery, London, agreed to the inclusion of Canaletto's
    greatest masterpiece: "The Stonemason's Yard."

    Essays outlining Canaletto's life and illuminating his work are by J. G. Links,
    authority and author on Canaletto, who revised W. G. Constable's catalogue raisonné
    for its second and now its third editions; Michael Levey, former Director of the
    National Gallery, London: Francis Haskell, Professor of the History of Art at the
    University of Oxford; Alessandro Bettagno, professor, and Director of the Institute
    for the History of Art at the Cini Foundation, Venice; and Viola Pemberton-Pigott,
    Senior Restorer to the Royal Collection. The paintings and drawings are discussed
    by Katharine Baetjer, Curator in the Department of European Paintings, The
    Metropolitan Museum of Art, and J. G. Links.
    Table of contents

    Foreword by Philippe de Montebello


    Acknowledgments
    Lenders to the Exhibition
    Notes to the Reader

    Canaletto: A Biographical Sketch


    J. G. Links

    Canaletto as Artist of the Urban Scene


    Michael Levey

    The Taste for Canaletto


    Francis Haskell

    Fantasy and Reality in Canaletto's Drawings


    Alessandro Bettagno
    The Development of Canaletto's Painting Technique
    Viola Pemberton-Pigott

    Canaletto's Painting Materials

    Paintings

    Drawings

    Appendix
    Selected Bibliography
    Index

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