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  • Canaletto — Guardi: The two masters of Venice

    “Veduta”, from the Italian for “view” is a subset of landscape painting and graphics in which the artist creates a reasonably accurate, usually large and detailed representation of a specific place. Most often the view is of a city that is remote and exotic to the intended audience for the works. The genre reached a…

  • Canaletto

    Giovanni Antonio Canal, known as Canaletto, is best known for his grand, sweeping views of his home city of Venice, intricately detailed and striking in their architectural fidelity. Most famous are his depictions of large scale public events, like A Regatta on the Grand Canal (image above, top, with detail, second down). Less well known,…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Bernardo Bellotto pen and wash drawing

    Imaginary View of Padua, Bernardo Bellotto; pen, black ink and gray wash drawing; roughly 13 x 17 inches (32 x 43 cm). Original is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. 18th century Italian artist Bernardo Bellotto had a very effective pen and wash technique for rendering architectural subjects that is similar to…

  • Eye Candy for Today: John Sell Cotman graphite and wash drawing

    East End of Saint Jacques at Dieppe, Normandy; John Sell Cotman; graphite and brown wash; roughly 12 x 9 inches (29 x 22 cm). LInk is to zoomable version on Google Art Project, downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons, original is in the Yale Center for British Art. English painter, printmaker and illustrator John Sell Cotman,…

  • Artists’ views of Venice

    Venice is a city from another time, and perhaps even from another world. Seeming to exist in sheer defiance of the intrusion of rising sea levels, sinking pilings, floods of tourists and the looming mountains of monstrous cruise ships, Venice is a shimmering mirage of transcendent beauty, an example of what’s possible when a city…

  • Algernon Newton

    Algernon Cecil Newton was a British painter active in the early to mid 20th century. Newton is known for his cityscapes with canal fronting buildings and landscapes of open hills and isolated trees. Newton’s approach, with stark contrasts of value and texture, evokes stillness and perhaps even a suspension of time, giving his paintings a…