Giovanni Antonio Canal

known as Canaletto

� 1697 – 1768

� He was born in Venice

�  Italian painter of landscapes (Vedute) in Venice

� He was also a printmaker in etching

� Oil on canvas

Often helped his father with his work

Including assisting with painting scenes in 1720 for an opera by Scarlatti

Canaletto Characteristics

�  One of the pioneers of two-point linear perspective

�  Marked by accuracy for detail

�  Executed with precision, and luminosity

�  Canaletto preferred to work outside, in direct view of his subject

�  Topographical painting

�  Canaletto’s paintings were the postcards of 18C

Canaletto's early works The Stonemason's Yard

Architectonical detailed

Human representation

Linear and Atmospheric Perspective

The Grand Canal

Church and Scuola of San Rocco Procession

Canaletto’s Dogs Finding the dog is an amusement of his

painting.

Women at the windows or on the balcony

Late Work

Capriccio with Ruins and Porta Portello, Padua: 1750's

London: Westminster Bridge from the North on Lord Mayor's Day 1746

London: Westminster Abbey, with a Procession of Knights of the Bath

1749

Capriccio: River Landscape with a Column

1754