Canaletto: 70 Drawings and Prints

by Narim Bender

Giovanni Antonio Canal, better known as Canaletto, was an Italian painter of landscapes of Venice. He was also an important printmaker in etching. Much of Canaletto's early artwork was painted "from nature", differing from the then customary practice of completing paintings in the studio. Some of his later works do revert to this custom, as suggested by the tendency for distant figures to be painted as blobs of color - an effect produced by using...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1512146641
• ISBN13: 9781512146646
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 74 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.0" x 0.2" x 8.5"