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Canaletto: The Doges' Palace and Piazza San Marco, Venice Canaletto: Piazza San Marco Henry VII Chapel Plate 1: An Island in the Lagoon, pen, brown ink, and carbon ink wash over ruled pencil lines by Canaletto (1697-1768). In the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, England. 18.3 X 27.8 cm. Canaletto: view of Warwick Castle
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Canaletto: The Doges' Palace and Piazza San Marco, Venice
Canaletto: The Doges' Palace and Piazza San Marco, Venice The Doges' Palace and Piazza San Marco, Venice, oil on canvas by Canaletto; in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence.

Canaletto

Italian artist
Also known as: Giovanni Antonio Canal
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William G. Constable
Curator of Paintings, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, 1938–57. Author of Canaletto.
William G. Constable
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Canaletto (born Oct. 18, 1697, Venice—died April 20, 1768, Venice) was an Italian topographical painter whose masterful expression of atmosphere in his detailed views (vedute) of Venice and London and of English country homes influenced succeeding generations of landscape artists. Canaletto was born into a noble family whose coat of arms he occasionally used as a signature. How he came to be known as Canaletto is uncertain, however; perhaps the name was first used to...

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