Canaletto Italian painter Canaletto was a talented and prolific artist best known for his striking surface features of Venice, Rome, and London. His writing has a particular aspect that sets it apart from typical guildsmen because he could deftly combine fundamental and made-up ideas to seductive effect. His "tourist" works, highly appreciated by the touring upper classes, were painstakingly made, with composing harmony taking precedence over rigid topographical accuracy as his main focus. Later in his career, Canaletto brought substantial series of "real-time" etchings to his body of work of such high caliber that they impacted the subsequent generations of... View more
