Canaletto

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Piazza San Marco,Venetian
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Biography of Canaletto

Italian Rococo painter and etcher
born 1697 - died 1768
Also known as: Antonio Canal, Giovanni Antonio Canal, Antonio Canale, Antonio Canaleto, Antonio Canaletti, Antonio Canelitti, Antonio Cannalletti, Antonio Kanale, Antonio Kanaletto, Antonio Kannaletti, Antonio Kannaletti, Canaletti the younger.

Master of: Bernardo Bellotto (1721-1780).
Teacher of: Bernardo Bellotto (1721-1780).
Uncle of: Bernardo Bellotto (1721-1780).

Canaletto Biography: (Giovanni Antonio Canal 1697-1768, Venetian painter, the most famous view-painter of the 18th century. Canaletto began work painting theatrical scenery (his father's profession), but he turned to topography during a visit to Rome in 1719-20, when he was influenced by the painting of Giovanni Paolo Panini. By 1723 Canaletto was painting dramatic and picturesque views of Venice, marked by strong contrasts of light and shade and free handling, this phase of Canaletto paintings culminating in the splendid Stone Mason's Yard (National Gallery, London, c. 1730). Meanwhile, partly under the influence of Luca Carlevaris, and largely in rivalry with him, Canaletto began to turn out views which were more topographically accurate, set in a higher key, and with smoother, more precise handling -- characteristics that mark most of later Venice Canaletto works. At the same time Canaletto began painting the ceremonial and festival subjects which ultimately formed an important part of his landscape art work.

Canaletto in Venice is a landscape painter appreciated by tourists. He is not only a successor of Rococo art but also the innovator of optics. He is expertise in depicting the Italian landscape such as Venice, using bright tone and light to express those famous places, architecture and landscapes. The skilful adoption of light made him a master of optics. So, oil painting lovers are very interested in his biography, and reproductions of paintings by Canaletto for sale in gallery are prevalent.

His patrons were chiefly English collectors, for whom Canaletto sometimes produced series of views in uniform size. Conspicuous among them was Joseph Smith, a merchant, appointed British Consul in Venice in 1744. It was perhaps at his instance that Canaletto enlarged his repertory in the 1740s to include subjects from the Venetian mainland and from Rome (probably based on Canaletto painting made during his visit as a young man), and by producing numerous capricci. Giovanni Antonio Canal also gave increased attention to the graphic art, making a remarkable series of etchings, and many drawings of Canaletto Venice in pen, and pen and wash, as independent Canaletto paintings of art and not as preparation for paintings.

This led to changes in his style of landscape art painting, increasing an already well-established tendency to become stylized and mechanical in handling. He often used the camera obscura as an aid to composition. Toperfect Art supplies Canaletto paintings of Venice landscape art, biography, prints and wallpaper of Venitian oil paintings like Return of the Bucintoro to the Molo on Ascension Day, The Grand Canal and the Church of the Salute, The Piazzetta.

In 1746 Canaletto went to England, apparently at the suggestion of Jacopo Amigoni (the War of the Austrian Succession drastically curtailed foreign travel, and his tourist trade in Venice had dried up). For a time Canaletto was very successful, painting views of London and of various country houses. Subsequently, Venice Canaletto became increasingly lifeless and mannered, so much so that rumors were put about, probably by rivals, that he was not in fact the famous Canaletto but an impostor.

In 1755 Giovanni Antonio Canal returned to Venice and continued active for the remainder of his life. Legends of his having amassed a fortune in Venice are disproved by the official inventory of his estate on his death.

Before this, Joseph Smith had sold the major part of Canaletto paintings to George III, thus bringing into the royal collection an unrivalled group of the paintings by Canaletto in Venice. - The most famous prints and wallpaper are Venitian landscape art including Return of the Bucintoro to the Molo on Ascension Day, The Grand Canal and the Church of the Salute, The Piazzetta, you may find them and Canaletto biography on oilpaintingfactory.com. Canaletto was highly influential in Italy and elsewhere. his nephew Bernardo Bellotto took his style to Central Europe and his followers in England included William Marlow and Samuel Scott.

Analysis of Best Known Paintings by Canaletto

Canaletto painting Piazza San Marco
before 1723 oil painting on canvas 145*205cm
The first Canaletto landscape painting Piazza San Marco was inferred being finished before 1723, when the piazza was paved in marble , because the ground is still in earth in the painting. Looking at this exquisite painting Piazza San Marco, we can notice that the vision of the painter is as precise as a camera. No wonder that Canaletto Venice landscape paintings are regarded as valuable as the historical literature.
Born in Venice, Canaletto is proud of this beautiful city, so he is devoted to paint the architecture and the landscape in his whole life. In Canaletto paintings, figures are merely attachments. But the painter himself had to admit that the figures can not be abandoned because the residence of the people made the architecture meaningful.

Canaletto Venice - Return of the Bucintoro to the Molo on Ascension Day
1729 oil painting on canvas 182X259cm
This artwork is a record of the very day of Ascension Day permeated with joy and happiness.
Painting by Canaletto in Venice is setting in the historical background that: on Ascension Day, the supreme executive of the republic of Venice boarded on the big ritual ship to meet the archbishop of Venice. They got together in the port to hold the betrothal ceremony for Venice city and the sea. After the ceremony the archbishop prayed for the engagement ring, and then the supreme executive threw it into the sea which symbolized that the city would dominate the sea. After that the music was played again, the gorgeous ritual ship returned to the port with well dressed people and decorated boats surrounded.
In the Canaletto painting, the hot sunshine of Return of the Bucintoro to the Molo on Ascension Day at noon linking the people with thousands of postures, the golden ceremony ship, boats and architectures behind them together, presents the bright and joyful atmosphere of festival.
Canaletto hasn’t neglected any small details in the painting. No matter the two masked man holding parasols in the stern of central boat, the blue waves shimmering in the river, the elaborately depicted hull, or the waiting crowd standing under the arcade of San Marco library, none of them are in a repeat pose. We have to praise Venice Canaletto for his delicate techniques in Return of the Bucintoro to the Molo on Ascension Day.