Gezicht op de Bibliotheek, Campanile en Dogenpaleis te Venetië, gezien vanaf het water

About this artwork

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About the Artist

Bernardo Bellotto · 1722–1780

Bernardo Bellotto (1722–1780) was an Italian painter of exceptional gifts who carried the art of the veduta — the precisely observed topographical view — from Venice across the courts of northern Europe, leaving behind some of the most detailed and haunting urban panoramas in the history of Western painting. Born in Venice, he was the nephew and pupil of the great vedutista Giovanni Antonio Canal,...