Canaletto
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Giovanni Antonio Canal, commonly known as Canaletto, was an Italian painter from the Republic of Venice, considered an important member of the 18th-century Venetian school.
Giovanni Antonio Canal
Canaletto's birthplace, Calle de la Malvasia, Castello, Venice
The Stonemason's Yard, painted c. 1725
View of the Entrance to the Venetian Arsenal, 1732
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.
Canaletto
…art critic George Vertue suggested that the man painting under the name 'Canaletto' was an impostor. This may have been because Canaletto's nephew, Bernardo Bellotto, was also using his uncle's nickname; or more likely because the story had been spread by unscrupulous art dealers who had been passing off copies of…
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