Gezicht op de Canal Grande en Ponte del Rialto te Venetië

About this artwork

Bruikleen van de Dienst voor 's Rijks Verspreide Kunstvoorwerpen

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,...