Canaletto

by Links, J G

• ISBN13: 9780714838434
• ISBN10: 0714838438
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-03-30
• Publisher: Phaidon Press

Summary

Giovanni Antonio Canal (1697-1768), known as Canaletto, is one of the mostopular of all old master painters. His views of Venice and London are muchelebrated and admired. First published in 1982, and revised in 1994, thisook is here reissued in paperback, tracing Canaletto's career from hiseginnings as a scene-painter with his father to the work of his later years.analetto was interested in depicting the world around him, but unlike mostf his fellow artists, he was more than a mere recorder of the amazingcenery of Venice or of Georgian England.;He had the power, in the words ofne of his contemporaries, to paint so that "the eye is deceived and trulyelieves it is the real thing it sees", and his insight and technical skillsere so dazzling that it was thought he must rely on some sort of opticalpparatus. His first views of Venice were painted around 1725 for Stefanoonti of Lucca. Soon after he came into contact with Joseph Smith, Britishonsul in Venice, who was to become his most important patron. Throughmith's influence, he came to England between about 1746 and 1756 during

Author Biography

J. G. Links, who died in 1997 aged 92, was recognized as the world's leading authority on Canaletto. He was partly responsible for the largest ever exhibition of Canaletto's works, held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, in 1989-90

Table of Contents

Preface	p. 6
An Age of Illusion	p. 8
The Theatre Renounced	p. 20
Change of Course	p. 48
An English Merchant	p. 80
Pen and Ink	p. 102
The Eye is Deceived	p. 112
New Fields	p. 120
A Friend in Need	p. 148
London, That Spacious City	p. 162
Escape from Reality	p. 202
The Last Years	p. 216
Epilogue	p. 236
Chronology	p. 248
Sources and Acknowledgements	p. 250
List of Plates	p. 251
Index	p. 255
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