Bernardo Bellotto (1720 – 1780)
Bernardo Bellotto was an Italian landscape artist and printmaker, he was famous for his urban views of European cities, including Dresden, Vienna, Turin and Warsaw. He was a pupil and nephew of the famous, Giovanni Antonio Canal, better known as Canaletto. Bernardo often used his uncle’s famous name, and signed himself as, Canaletto Bellotto, or Canaletto the Younger. His architectural and natural views (vedute) were beautifully detailed and attributed, partly, to the use of the “camera obscura”, (dark chamber), an ancestor of the photographic camera.
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