Bernardo Bellotto, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Bernardo Bellotto

Italian artist

Date of Birth: 30-Jan-1721

Place of Birth: Venice, Venetian Province, Italy

Date of Death: 17-Nov-1780

Profession: painter, printmaker

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Bernardo Bellotto, (c.
1721/2 or 30 January 1721 – 17 November 1780), was an Italian urban landscape painter or vedutista, and printmaker in etching famous for his vedute of European cities (Dresden, Vienna, Turin and Warsaw).
He was the pupil and nephew of the famous Giovanni Antonio Canal Canaletto and sometimes used the latter's illustrious name, signing himself as Bernardo Canaletto.
In Germany and Poland, Bellotto called himself by his uncle's name, Canaletto. Bellotto's style was characterized by elaborate representation of architectural and natural vistas, and by the specific quality of each place's lighting.
It is plausible that Bellotto, and other Venetian masters of vedute, may have used the camera obscura in order to achieve superior precision of urban views.



Alternative names	il Canaletto
Description	Italian landscape painter, printmaker and etcher
Date of birth/death	30 January 1721 / 30 January 1720 / 20 May 1722	17 November 1780
Location of birth/death	Venice	Warsaw
Work location	Rome (1742–1744), Dresden (1747–1758), Vienna (1758–1761), Dresden (1761–1764), Warsaw (1764–1780)
Authority control	: Q164688 VIAF: 61096 ISNI: 0000 0001 1735 5535 ULAN: 500028876 LCCN: n80045168 NLA: 35072176 WorldCat