Pirna: The Obertor from the South
Bernardo Bellotto
mid-1750s
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
18 1/4 x 30 3/4 in. (46.4 x 78.1 cm)
Classification
Paintings
Department
European Paintings
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Wrightsman Fund, 1991
Accession Number
1991.306
Tags
BuildingsVillages
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,...