Word: vedutista
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...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 at long last realized that Bellotto...
...First Postcards. Most visitors took home oil-painted vedute, facile, panoramic views of the city that predated the picture postcard. Canaletto was a vedutista with vision. Trained in theatrical scene painting, disciplined by Roman academicians, influenced by Dutch artists' oils of classical ruins, he swiftly caught the eye of visiting and resident English milords, who collected and commissioned such far-from-vedute fantasies as Tomb of Lord Sowers (see opposite page), a highlight of North America's first comprehensive Canaletto retrospective, which opened this week in Toronto...
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