Architectural / Vista em Perspectiva com Pórtico (Architectural / Perspective View with Portico) - Giovanni Antonio Canal "Canaletto"
Gallerie dell'Accademia, Veneza, Itália
OST - 131x93 - 1765
If the attention of Rosalba Carriera and Pietro Longhi was
drawn to the life and customs of their own day, Canaletto left for posterity a
panorama of the colourfully spectacular public life of Venice, all registered
in his precisely drawn and perspectively accurate scenes. He soon turned his
back on the confident virtuoso displays of scenery painting and designing which
he had been given a start in by his father Bernardo. And after a period in Rome
where he was struck more by the objective reporting of reality by Viviano
Coduzzi and painters from the Netherlands like Berkheyde than the decorative
vivacity of Pannini and Van Wittel, Canaletto applied himself to setting onto
canvas scenes from Venice as later he was to paint views of London and the
English countryside. In these paintings he conceded nothing to the episodic and
the picturesque and concentrated his clearsighted vision instead on creating a
space-light synthesis of extraordinary truthfulness.
The Perspective - donated by Canaletto to the Accademia in 1765
for his admission in the capacity of a painter of perspective in September,
1763 - is a fine example of his extraordinary recreation of real data in
prodigiously stylized form. Even though here the subject is drawn from the
imagination, each architectural detail is a fascinating concentration of
images.
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