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	Canaletto, pintor de Venecia.(TT: Canaletto, Venetian painter.) Magazine article from: Contenido; 1/1/1998; 700+ words ; ...Venecia en 1697-- empezaron a decirle Canaletto, "canalito", para diferenciarlo de...teatrales. Tanta destreza mostr el joven Canaletto, que sus primeros trabajos escenogrficos...Scarlatti (1659-1725)--, cuando a Canaletto le dio por afirmar que los poetas dramticos...
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	Home thoughts from abroad ; VISUAL ART ++ Canaletto in England Dulwich Picture Gallery LONDON Newspaper article from: The Independent on Sunday; 1/28/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...time. Which may seem a long way from Canaletto and the Dulwich Picture Gallery, though you'll get my drift. The new show, Canaletto in England, brings together 39 of the...because we Brits have always regarded Canaletto's English works as inferior to the...
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	Canaletto in England: Canaletto's rich legacy of work made over a decade spent in England is the subject of a new exhibition at Dulwich Picture Gallery. Denise Silvester-Carr tells how the Venetian artist, long popular with the British, crossed the Channel to revive his fortunes.(FRONTLINE)(Giovanni Antonio Canal) Magazine article from: History Today; 2/1/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...Giovanni Antonio Canal, popularly known as Canaletto, arrived in London in May 1746 his fame...Austrian Succession in 1740 saw a decline in Canaletto's fortunes. Military operations prevented...Smith, the British Consul in Venice and Canaletto's greatest patron, who suggested that...
	Canaletto's views of England: for centuries England needed immigrant artists to bolster native talent, but this was no longer true when Canaletto visited. Hugh Belsey visits the Yale Center for British Art's exhibition of the work that Canaletto made in London.(EXHIBITIONS) Magazine article from: Apollo; 12/1/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...distinguished an artist to Britain as Canaletto is that it created so little comment...the day, also reported that the London Canaletto was an impostor, a slander that has...since. More helpfully, he reports that Canaletto arrived in May 1746, and returned to...
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	Francesco Guardi Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...until he was 72 years old. Guardi and Canaletto have always been compared to one another...artist painted them is very different. Canaletto's world is constructed out of line...is suggested rather than described. Canaletto belonged essentially to the Renaissance...
	Bellotto, Bernardo Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists ...etcher, nephew, pupil, and assistant of Canaletto in Venice. He became a member of the...until his death). He called himself Canaletto, and this caused confusion (perhaps...colouring is also generally more sombre than Canaletto's, much of his work being characterized...
	Guardi, Francesco Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists ...his views of Venice, indeed next to Canaletto he is the most celebrated view-painter...attention of foreign visitors in the way Canaletto did, and he died in poverty. Recognition...bravura, and atmosphere lacking in Canaletto's sharply defined and deliberate works...