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Bernardo Bellotto
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Bernardo Bellotto, was an Italian urban landscape painter or vedutista, and printmaker in etching, famous for his vedute of European cities – Dresden, Vienna, Turin, and Warsaw.
Detail of Self-portrait as Venetian ambassador (c. 1765)
Detail of Self-portrait as Venetian ambassador (c. 1765)
Architectural Capriccio with a palace, Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao
Architectural Capriccio with a palace, Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao
Dresden From the Right Bank of the Elbe Above the Augustus Bridge, Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister
Dresden From the Right Bank of the Elbe Above the Augustus Bridge, Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister
View of Warsaw from Praga, Royal Castle, Warsaw
View of Warsaw from Praga, Royal Castle, Warsaw
Camera obscura
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A camera obscura is the natural phenomenon in which light passing through the small hole of a dark chamber or box will project an image of a scene outside the chamber onto the surface opposite to the
Bernardo Bellotto
…vistas, and by the specific quality of each place's lighting. It is plausible that Bellotto, and other Venetian masters of vedute, may have used the camera obscura to achieve superior precision of urban views. Bellotto was born in Venice, the son of Lorenzo Antonio Bellotto and Fiorenza Canal, sister of the famous…
A camera obscura image in Wat Phra That Lampang Luang in Thailand
A camera obscura image in Wat Phra That Lampang Luang in Thailand
An image of the stupa projected onto a wall of Ubosot of Wat Thong Laplae [th] in Thailand by the gap built between the window panels and the windowsi
An image of the stupa projected onto a wall of Ubosot of Wat Thong Laplae [th] in Thailand by the gap built between the window panels and the windowsill
An image of the New Royal Palace at Prague Castle projected onto an attic wall by a hole in the tile roofing
An image of the New Royal Palace at Prague Castle projected onto an attic wall by a hole in the tile roofing
Illustration of the camera obscura principle from James Ayscough's A short account of the eye and nature of vision (1755 fourth edition)
Illustration of the camera obscura principle from James Ayscough's A short account of the eye and nature of vision (1755 fourth edition)