Landscape with Ruins
Bernardo Bellotto
about 1740
Medium
Etching in black on cream laid paper
Dimensions
Plate: 18.4 × 25.4 cm (7 1/4 × 10 in.); Sheet: 22.6 × 29.6 cm (8 15/16 × 11 11/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
60998
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,...