Word: canalettos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...perspectives have challenged and eluded more artists than any other city in the world. Of all the painters who have attempted to capture the visual music of Venice-and some of the greatest have been Venetians-none was better attuned than Giovanni Antonio Canal, better known by his nickname Canaletto...
...Canaletto's Venice was the 18th century's most worldly and sensual city. In the last, decadent century of its independence, the old republic was all pageantry and intrigue. From Piazza San Marco to the Rialto, it was a gaudy blur of masquers and courtesans, actors, singers and sightseers. As the sunny antithesis of London, and most colorful way-point of the Grand Tour, Casanova's Venice even then drew 30,000 Englishmen a year. So many top-chop Londoners returned with Canaletto's etchings and oil paintings that an Englishwoman visiting the city...
When he was 52, he attempted suicide several times, with a sword by his side so that he would die with the appearance of a knight. Finally he succeeded. But without the Venetian visionary's work, such 18th century masterworks as the airy cityscapes of Canaletto and Guardi, the angel-frosted ceilings of Tiepolo and the imaginary prisons of Piranesi might never have come to grace great museums...
...Canaletto to Cezanne. Other U.S. museums were also savoring their latest treasures, made all the more precious because the supply of old masters available is constantly dwindling. The Yale University Art Gallery has added Rubens' turbulent Hero and Leander, painted around 1606, when the artist was under 30. It is a painting of tragic fury with the kind of magnificent melodrama that was to appeal to the 16th century romantics...
...carved after a design by Rogier van der Weyden and for centuries belonged to the Dukes of Arenberg. The Cleveland Art Museum's acquisitions in the old master class range from a landscape by Claude Lorrain through a newly discovered drawing by Rembrandt to a sweeping view by Canaletto of Venice's Piazza San Marco...