CANALETTO y BELLOTTO

Venetian painter Antonio Canaletto and his nephew Bernardo Bellotto used their richly detailed cityscapes to shape public understanding of the places they depicted. In this innovative study, Mateusz Mayer uses Canaletto and Bellotto's work as a lens to examine how Venice became the stage for a resplendent republican tradition, London a vision of bourgeois pride, and Vienna a setting for imperial representation?characterizations that continue to shape how we see these cities today. The volume vividly reveals how Canaletto and Bellotto ...[Read more]