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)
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
View of Warsaw from Praga, Royal Castle, Warsaw
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A veduta is a highly detailed, usually large-scale painting or, more often, print of a cityscape or some other vista. The painters of vedute are referred to as vedutisti.
Bernardo Bellotto
…c. 1721/1722 or 30 January 1721 – 17 November 1780), was an Italian urban landscape painter or vedutista, and printmaker in etching, famous for his vedute of European cities – Dresden, Vienna, Turin, and Warsaw. He was the student and nephew of the renowned Giovanni Antonio Canal, known as Canaletto, and…
Rome, a view of the Tiber, Castel Sant'Angelo, Ponte Sant'Angelo, Saint Peter's Basilica by Hendrik Frans van Lint; 1734, oil on canvas, 47 × 72 cm, private collection
View of Bracciano by Paul Bril; early 1620s, oil on canvas, 75 × 164 cm, Art Gallery of South Australia.
Westminster Bridge, with the Lord Mayor's Procession on the Thames by Canaletto, 1747
Santa Maria del Rosario in Venice by Federico del Campo, 1899