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...paintings Cahill stole were recovered. The next man to loot Russborough House is believed by senior police sources to have been Martin Foley - known as the Viper, and one of Cahill's most loyal lieutenants. In a June 2001 raid, his gang took two paintings: Bellotto's View of Florence and Gainsborough's Madame Baccelli. It was the third time these paintings had been lifted. The gardaí believe the Viper, who is still at large, masterminded the theft for insurance purposes - to trade the art for his freedom. Former officers say such negotiations are not uncommon. "Deals are done...
...anew, they would try to restore the city's historic sections to their original appearance. The job has taken a long time. But the rebuilders have been cheered by the knowledge that their most valuable assistant is an artist who waited even longer for recognition. He is Bernardo Bellotto, a Venetian vedutista, or landscape painter, whose views of 18th century Warsaw are the most perfect record of the city to survive the war. And though Bellotto lived from 1720 to 1780, it was only this summer at a major exhibition of vedutisti in Venice that the Italian public...
Crystalline Visions. Bellotto learned his trade in his uncle's Venetian studio. Canaletto was then one of the most illustrious and successful artists in Europe, leader of the school whose detailed panoramas of Venetian fiestas and parades hung in castles and mansions from Italy to England. In his youth,Bel-lotto aped his uncle's style and signed his canvases "Bernardo Bellotto Canaletto," a quirk that has caused confusion among collectors ever since. But as he matured, he developed a colder, moodier, darker technique...
After wandering to Dresden, Vienna and Munich, Bellotto settled in Warsaw in 1767. He spent the next decade recording 26 views of the city for King Stanislas Augustus of Poland. It was to Bellotto's crystalline and chillingly immobile visions of Warsaw's palaces, churches and streets, crowded with 18th century Poles of every class, that the city's postwar reconstructionists turned for aid in rebuilding dozens of bombed-out structures. "Bellotto's use of the camera obscura made him able to achieve complete precision of proportions," points out Ministry of Culture Engineer Henryk Wasowicz...
Polish artistry drew on the resources of Europe. During the early 16th century reign of Sigismund I, Italian Renaissance artists were at work in Poland. Even two centuries later, the most famous master in the country bore the name of Bernardo Bellotto, a nephew of Canaletto. A court painter from 1767 to 1780, he used a camera obscura to obtain perfect perspectives for his city scapes. After the destruction of Warsaw during World War II, his paintings were so accurate that they were used to reconstruct demolished monuments and buildings. The horn of the Wieliczka salt miners, made...
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