Bellotto, Bernardo
Bellotto, Bernardo (
b Venice, 30 Jan. 1721;
d Warsaw, 17 Nov. 1780). Italian painter, draughtsman, and etcher, nephew, pupil, and assistant of
Canaletto in Venice. He became a member of the Venetian painters' guild in 1738 and in the 1740s he travelled widely in Italy, painting views of Florence, Rome, and other cities. In 1747 he left Italy for good, spending the rest of his life working successfully at various European courts, notably Dresden (1747–58 and 1761–6) and Warsaw (where he lived from 1767 until his death). He called himself Canaletto, and this caused confusion (perhaps deliberate) between his work and his uncle's, particularly in views of Venice. Bellotto's early work is indeed sometimes difficult to tell apart from his uncle's, but his mature style is more individual, distinguished by an almost Dutch interest in massed clouds, cast shadows, and rich foliage. His colouring is also generally more sombre than Canaletto's, much of his work being characterized by a steely grey. The best collections of his work are in Dresden (Gemäldegalerie) and Warsaw (Nat. Mus.). In the rebuilding of Warsaw after the Second World War his pictures were used as guides, even in the reconstruction of architectural ornament.
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Landscapes of the ancien regime: Robert Oresko reviews the Kunsthistorisches Museum's impressively comprehensive overview of the career of Bernardo Bellotto, which took the artist from Italy to Warsaw.
Magazine article from: Apollo; 6/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...outstanding virtue of the exhibition Bernardo Bellotto genant Canaletto: europaischen...juxtaposing reproductions of paintings by Bellotto in the exhibition with photographs...recent photograph demonstrates that Bellotto used two different vantage points...
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Canaletto's nephew: a traveling exhibition of paintings by Bernardo Bellotto, whose 18th-century views document Italian cities and many northern European capitals, revealed an artist who, according to the author, surpassed his more famous uncle on all counts.
Magazine article from: Art in America; 1/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...on all fronts--his nephew? Bernardo Bellotto (1722-1780) brought representation...visionary Caspar David Friedrich. Bellotto describes minutiae at long distance...Hitchcock visualized for Vertigo. In Bellotto's Architectural Capriccio with...
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Bernardo Bellotto, a Venetian Painter in Warsaw
Newspaper article from: Polish-American Journal; 3/31/2005; ; 381 words
; ...American Journal 03-31-2005 BERNARDO BELLOTTO, A Venetian Painter in Warsaw...century Venetian painter, Bernardo Bellotto. Bellotto was a Venetian painter...accompanied the exhibition "Bernardo Bellotto, Paintings from the Royal Castle...
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The Ruins of the Old Kreuzkirche in Dresden (1765) ; GREAT WORKS ++ Bernardo Bellotto Kunsthaus, Zurich
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 11/3/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...the Old Kreuzkirche in Dresden by Bernardo Bellotto. The Church of the Holy Cross...too mostly fell down. This is Bellotto's subject, painted on the spot...silhouette of the older houses. Some of Bellotto's contemporaries had begun to...
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Belloto en Bilbao.(pintor Bernardo Bellotto)(TT: Belloto in Bilbao.)(TA: painter Bernardo Bellotto)
Magazine article from: Epoca; 7/27/1998; 559 words
; Museo de Bellas Artes Bernardo Bellotto, sobrino, discpulo y ayudante de Canaletto, el famoso pintor de vistas de Venecia, naci en esta ciudad en 1722 y mur en Varsovia...
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Bellotto: Student Into Master
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 10/1/1993; ; 693 words
; ...by his nephew and protege, Bernardo Bellotto. Until now patrons of the National...s name by signing himself Bernardo Bellotto il Canaletto. If the boy learned...studio his genius was nurtured. BERNARDO BELLOTTO'S "THE FORTRESS OF KOENIGSTEIN...
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The city that we destroyed; The highlights of the Royal Academy's new exhibition are Bellotto's magnificent records of the baroque splendour of Dresden in its prime.
Newspaper article from: The Evening Standard (London, England); 3/14/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...paintings of Canaletto's nephew, Bellotto, of which five are currently to...Sleeping Venus have been omitted. Bernardo Bellotto was born in Venice in 1722. By...brother, then in his prime. The boy Bernardo learned, inevitably, the skills...
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BRAVO, BELLOTTO.(Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Town & Country; 7/1/2001; ; 607 words
; ...conditioned confines of its galleries. Your guide is Bernardo Bellotto (1722-1780), the least known but arguably the greatest...His uncle was the famous Canaletto, and no doubt Bernardo could have made quite a nice career supplying visiting...
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Finest pickings
Magazine article from: The Spectator; 3/22/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...incarnation which the Venetian Bernardo Bellotto so expertly and famously portrayed...river, soft and sensitive, with Bellotto's far sharper 'Dresden from...painted between 1749 and 1753, Bellotto having been appointed court painter...
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It is not just the Frauenkirche that has been restored, says Robert Thorne, but also the collective memory of the city it overlooks.(DRESDEN NEWS)
Magazine article from: Apollo; 2/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...forty or so paintings completed by Bernardo Bellotto for the Prince Elector Frederick...von Bruhl. By superb timing, Bellotto arrived in Dresden in 1747, just...Johann Alexander Thiele lacked Bellotto's talent for composition and...
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Bernardo Bellotto
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Bernardo Bellotto , 1720-80, Venetian architectural...depict scenes in the cities in which Bellotto resided. In 1747 he was appointed...Bibliography: See S. Kozakiewicz, Bernardo Bellotto (tr., 2 vol. 1972).
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Bellotto, Bernardo
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists
Bellotto, Bernardo (1721–80). Italian painter, draughtsman, and etcher...between his work and his uncle's, particularly in views of Venice. Bellotto's early work is indeed sometimes difficult to tell apart from his...
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Veduta (View Painting)
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
...in England (1746 – 1755). His nephew Bernardo Bellotto (1720 – 1780), no less an artist although...Canaletto's rivals in the 1730s, and the departure of Bellotto, Venice found itself without a significant view painter...
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Canaletto
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...name was Antonio Canal. He studied with his father, Bernardo Canal, a theatrical scene painter, and spent several...and American collections. His nephew and pupil, Bernardo Bellotto, was also called Canaletto. Bibliography: See studies...
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reconstruction
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
...of the Old Town, etc., as well as photographic evidence, and views of the city meticulously recorded in C18 by Bernardo Bellotto (1720–80), Canaletto's nephew: this was deemed essential to keep alive the memory of nationhood...
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