Bernardo Bellotto

Author : Bernardo Bellotto,Irina Artemʹeva,Irina Artemieva,Museo Correr,Andrzej Rottermund,Martina Frank,Museum of Fine Arts, Houston,Gregor J.M. Weber
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300091816

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Bernardo Bellotto and the Capitals of Europe by Bernardo Bellotto,Irina Artemʹeva,Irina Artemieva,Museo Correr,Andrzej Rottermund,Martina Frank,Museum of Fine Arts, Houston,Gregor J.M. Weber Pdf

Bernardo Bellotto is considered to be one of the greatest topographical and landscape painters of the eighteenth century. Trained as a painter of cityscapes, he produced vivid and memorable images of many of the greatest cities of Europe, including Venice, Florence, Rome, Dresden, Munich, Vienna, and Warsaw. He also ventured successfully into genre, portraiture, allegory, and history painting. This beautiful book, written by leading specialists on Bellotto, examines his career and artistic development, places his work in the context of the political needs of central European monarchs, and presents a selection of his major paintings from each of his principal periods and genres. Bellotto began as a painter of conventional views of Venice in the manner of his more famous uncle, Canaletto. However, his quest for new subject matter led him to visit half a dozen cities in northern and central Italy in the early 1740s, and at twenty-five he left Italy for northern Europe, where he spent the rest of his life working for royal and aristocratic patrons. In Dresden he was engaged in the service of Augustus III, where he created many glorious canvases and was awarded the title of Court Painter. He then moved to Vienna and recorded its attractions for Empress Maria Theresa. He ended his career as Court Painter in Warsaw, and his detailed paintings of the city played an important role in its reconstruction after the Second World War. The book demonstrates that in each of the places Bellotto lived, he was able to capture the particular light and life with sensitivity and imagination.

Author : Stefan Kozakiewicz,Bernardo Bellotto
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Artists
ISBN : UOM:39015017075865

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Bernardo Bellotto by Stefan Kozakiewicz,Bernardo Bellotto Pdf

Author : Alte Pinakothek (Munich, Germany)
Publisher : Hirmer Verlag GmbH
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Art, Italian
ISBN : 3777422479

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Canaletto by Alte Pinakothek (Munich, Germany) Pdf

In 1761, Bernardo Bellotto painted his famous panorama of Munich, signing the painting "Canaletto"--as he signed many of his paintings--in tribute to his uncle and teacher Giovanni Antonio Canal. In addition to the famous panorama, Bellotto completed over the course of several months two stunning palace views for the Duke of Bavaria, Maximilian III Joseph. Placing Bellotto's Munich paintings within the artist's broader body of work, this well-illustrated book highlights the Italian painter and printmaker's capacity to create paintings of European cities that are both remarkably realistic and compositionally idealistic. Depicting Dresden, Vienna, Turin, and Warsaw, the paintings demonstrate an elaborate attention to architectural and natural detail and a sophisticated understanding of the specific quality of light in each place. By juxtaposing the paintings with Bellotto's preparatory sketches, the book also sheds light on his complicated process, which is thought to have included the use of the popular optical aid of that time, the camera obscura. Rounding out the book is a contemporary artistic reevaluation of the paintings through the medium of photography. Bringing together many well-known works by the Venetian vedute with a trove of paintings rarely seen, including a series of highly idealized architectural depictions, the book illustrates his critical contribution to this important European tradition.

Author : Bernardo Bellotto
Publisher : 5Continents
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Art
ISBN : UVA:X004791992

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Bernardo Bellotto by Bernardo Bellotto Pdf

As part of the year in honour of Poland, the Louvre displays, from 5 October 2004 to 10 January 2005, a number of works depicting the city of Warsaw by Bernardo Bellotto, an eighteenth century Italian painter. Bellotto's set of views of the city of Warsaw is not only remarkably beautiful, but is also an incomparable iconographic and historical record. Bellotto was one of the greatest Italian city painters of the eighteenth century. The set is outstanding both for the large number of paintings on the same subject, and for its usefulness during the reconstruction of Warsaw after the Second World War, for it enabled the old city centre to be rebuilt as it was in the eighteenth century. This book contains all 23 of Bellotto's paintings from the museum in the Royal Castle, Warsaw, not just the 18 paintings exhibited in the Louvre. The reproductions are large and accompanied by details. The commentaries take an iconographic approach and draw on historical evidence; some works are compared with photos of

Author : Letizia Treves
Publisher : National Gallery London
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-13
Category : Dresden (Germany)
ISBN : 1857096746

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Bellotto by Letizia Treves Pdf

Catalogue exploring the five spectacular views of the Fortress of Königstein in Dresden by Venetian painter Bernardo Bellotto, nephew and pupil of Canaletto Bernardo Bellotto (1722-1780) ranks amongst the very greatest view painters of eighteenth-century Europe. Today, he is best known for his views of northern European cities: large-scale works characterised by panoramic compositions, a strongly contrasted use of light and shadow, and meticulous attention to architectural detail. This book provides an overview of Bellotto's life and career, as well as a record of the historic reuniting of his five spectacular views of the fortress of Königstein, displayed together for the first time in over 250 years, following the National Gallery's recent acquisition of The Fortress of Königstein from the North in 2017. Commissioned by August III, Elector of Saxony and King of Poland, these works depicting the fortress from different viewpoints are undoubtedly Bellotto's finest non-urban paintings. These remarkable pictures are imbued with a monumentality rarely seen at this time and the series dramatically illustrates the very different direction in which Bellotto took the tradition of European view painting.

Author : Bernardo Bellotto,Whitechapel Art Gallery,Walker Art Gallery,Muzeum Narodowe w Warszawie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Painters
ISBN : UCAL:B3611372

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Bernardo Bellotto, 1720-1780 by Bernardo Bellotto,Whitechapel Art Gallery,Walker Art Gallery,Muzeum Narodowe w Warszawie Pdf

Author : Wolfgang M. Freitag
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134830411

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Art Books by Wolfgang M. Freitag Pdf

First published in 1997. For this second edition of Art Books: A Basic Bibliography of Monographs on Artists, the vast number of new books published since 1985 was surveyed and evaluated. This has resulted in the selection of 3,395 additional titles. These selections, reflective of the increase in the monographic literature on artists during the last ten years, are evidence of the activities of a larger number of art historians in more countries worldwide, of the increasingly diverse and ambitious exhibition programs of museums whose number has also increased dramatically, and also of a lively international art market and the attendant gallery activities. The selections of the first edition have been reviewed, errors have been corrected and important new editions and reprints have been noted. The second edition contains 278 names of artists not represented in the first edition.

Author : Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister (Dresden, Germany)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Dresden (Germany)
ISBN : 3954984490

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The Lure of Dresden by Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister (Dresden, Germany) Pdf

Bernardo Bellotto (1722-1780) is one of the most famous vedute painters of the 18th century. His views and prospects of town and country are so rich in detail, so precisely and meticulously painted that historic places come to life again before the viewer's eyes. But far from being simply faithful reproductions of sights, his vedute are rather carefully planned compositions, the result of the artist availing himself of all the technical know-how of his age. During his time in Dresden, Bellotto created some of his most important works, which now form part of the collection at the Gemaldegalerie Alte Meister. These vedute still influence the way Dresden is perceived today, at home and abroad. They present a wonderful panorama of the old Augustan city, on which two of the greatest art collectors in German history - Augustus the Strong and his son Augustus III - left their mark. Thanks to these two electors, who simultaneously held the crown of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the Dresden art collections flourished, becoming some of the most important in the world. This volume traces the various stages of Bellotto's career, focussing in detail on the canvases of his Dresden period. It also examines the history of the world-famous picture gallery, the Gemaldegalerie Alte Meister, and the era of Baroque collection-building in Dresden.

Author : Jane Martineau,Andrew Robison,Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain),National Gallery of Art (U.S.)
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300061864

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The Glory of Venice by Jane Martineau,Andrew Robison,Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain),National Gallery of Art (U.S.) Pdf

Venice, home of Tiepolo, Canaletto, Piranesi, Piazzetta, and Guardi, was the most artistic city of 18th-century Italy. This beautiful book examines the whole range of the arts in Venice during the period, including paintings, pastels and gouaches, drawings and watercolors, prints and illustrated books and sculpture. Beautifully illustrated.

Author : Earle Rice Jr.
Publisher : Mitchell Lane
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781545748190

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Canaletto by Earle Rice Jr. Pdf

An introduction into the life and times of Giovanni Antonio Canal, a famous Venetian artist known for his landscapes of Venice.

Author : Marco Bussagli,Mattia Reiche
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Art
ISBN : 1402759258

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Baroque & Rococo by Marco Bussagli,Mattia Reiche Pdf

An era of exuberant creativity is the focus of this magnificently illustrated, competitively priced new art book. Baroque art was characterized by unbridled emotion, intricate decorative flourishes, and a dramatic use of light, reaching its summit in works such as Bernini’s magnificent altarpiece, The Ecstasy of St. Theresa. Over time, this robust genre evolved into the more ornate and sensuously playful Rococo, a style epitomized by the opulent paintings of Watteau. This beautifully produced exploration of both movements guides the reader through more than a century of art history--exploring the lives and works of sculptors such as Bernini, painters such as Watteau, Boucher, Rubens, and Hogarth, and architects such as Christopher Wren.

Author : Jayne Wrightsman
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781588391445

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The Wrightsman Pictures by Jayne Wrightsman Pdf

This lavish catalogue presents 150 European paintings, pastels, and drawings from the late fifteenth to the mid-nineteenth century that have been given to the Metropolitan Museum by Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wrightsman or are still held in Mrs. Wrightsman's private collection. These notable works were collected over the past four decades, many of them with the Museum in mind; some were purchased by the Museum through the Wrightsman Fund. Highlights of the book include masterpieces by Vermeer, El Greco, Rubens, Van Dyck, Georges de La Tour, Jacques-Louis David, and Caspar David Friedrich as well as numerous paintings by the eighteenth-century Venetian artists Canaletto, Guardi, and the Tiepolos, father and son, plus a dozen remarkable portrait drawings by Ingres. Each work is reproduced in color and is accompanied by a short essay.

Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.),Federico Zeri,Elizabeth E. Gardner
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Painting
ISBN : 9780870990793

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Italian Paintings: Venetian School by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.),Federico Zeri,Elizabeth E. Gardner Pdf

Author : Maia Wellington Gahtan,Donatella Pegazzano
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-19
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351778206

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Monographic Exhibitions and the History of Art by Maia Wellington Gahtan,Donatella Pegazzano Pdf

This edited collection traces the impact of monographic exhibitions on the discipline of art history from the first examples in the late eighteenth century through the present. Roughly falling into three genres (retrospectives of living artists, retrospectives of recently deceased artists, and monographic exhibitions of Old Masters), specialists examine examples of each genre within their social, cultural, political, and economic contexts. Exhbitions covered include Nathaniel Hone’s 1775 exhibition, the Holbein Exhibition of 1871, the Courbet retrospective of 1882, Titian's exhibition in Venice, Poussin's Louvre retrospective of 1960, and El Greco's anniversaty exhibitions of 2014.

Author : Stefan Kozakiewicz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 531 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1181392483

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Bernardo Bellotto by Stefan Kozakiewicz Pdf