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Bernardo Bellotto (c. 1721/2 – 1780)

• Was an Italian urban landscape painter or vedutista.
• He is famous for his vedute of European cities Dresden, Vienna, Turin, and Warsaw.
• He was the student and nephew of the famous Giovanni Antonio Canal Canaletto.
• Sometimes he signed himself as Bernardo Canaletto.
• In Germany and Poland, Bellotto called himself by his uncle's name, Canaletto.
• Bellotto and other Venetian masters of vedute, may have used the camera obscura in order to achieve superior precision of urban views.
• The displayed painting is a crop from: Bernardo Bellotto, Capriccio with a River and Bridge, 1745.
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