Vedutism - Finestre sull'Arte

From Warsaw to Venice, a masterpiece by Bernardo Bellotto guests at the Cini Foundation

From Warsaw to Venice: a masterpiece by Bernardo Bellotto (Venice, 1721 - Warsaw, 1780), arriving from the Royal Castle Museum in Poland's capital, namely the canvas known as Warsaw, Church of the Holy Cross of 1778, comes on loan to the Cini Foundat...
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Canaletto and Guardi forever

What a blow to old Luca Carlevarijs this story was. He had been in Venice for some time devoted to picturesque landscape painting and was therefore also the leading specialist in topographical veduta, a genre he cultivated with the merit of t...
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Milan, a series of exhibitions on graphic collections at Castello Sforzesco: starting with Venice

Held from Sept. 15 to Dec. 19 at Milan's Castello Sforzesco, in the Sale dell'Antico Ospedale Spagnolo, the show inaugurates a cycle of exhibitions devoted to the graphic collections of the Gabinetto dei Disegni and the Civica Raccolta delle Stampe "...
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When a great Venetian vedutista traveled to Tuscany. Bernardo Bellotto in Lucca

It must not have been easy to be the nephew of Antonio Canal, better known as il Canaletto (Venice, 1697 - 1768), one of the greatest Venetian vedutisti, who immortalized landscapes of the lagoon on canvas; however, Bernardo Bellotto (Venice, 1722 - ...
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