Veduta
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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.
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
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.
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…the Canal and Guardi families of Venice. Some of them went to work as painters in major capitals of Europe, e.g., Canaletto in London and his nephew Bernardo Bellotto in Dresden and Warsaw. In other parts of 18th-century Italy, idiosyncratic varieties of the genre evolved. Giovanni Paolo Pannini was the first veduta…
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