Giovanni Antonio Canal

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Giovanni Antonio Canal, 1754
The Bucintoro in Venice on Ascension Day 1732

Giovanni Antonio Canal (born October 7, 1697 in Venice ; † April 19, 1768 ibid), called Canaletto , was an important Italian vedute and landscape painter .

Life

Canaletto's birthplace

Canaletto learned to paint in the workshop of his father Bernardo Canal, who made sets for theatrical productions. He became famous for the pictures of his hometown Venice as well as for Capricci . They impress with their almost photorealistically accurate and detailed representation. To achieve this precision, he used a camera obscura as an aid .

Antonio Canal can be distinguished from his nephew Bernardo Bellotto , who worked in a very similar way and later also used the stage name "Canaletto". Antonio Canal's works are overall more luminous, mostly more cheerful and also brighter than those of his nephew.

One of Canaletto's patrons and clients was the English consul in Venice, Joseph Smith , who also commissioned Antonio Visentini in 1728 with the engravings for Canaletto's Venetian vedute under the title Venetiarum nobis Prospectus , and thus for the distribution of the works among the English travelers on the Grand Tour Nobles cared. The pictures were either purchased from the English nobles through Smith or ordered directly from England. From 1731 to 1732 the 4th Duke of Bedford commissioned 24 paintings, which Antonio Canal made from 1732 to 1736. This was followed by orders from the 3rd Duke of Marlborough for a further 20 pictures and in 1738 Henry Howard, 4th Earl of Carlisle , ordered 5 large-format canvases. After the outbreak of the Austrian War of Succession in 1740, the number of his orders fell. Canal went to England for ten years in 1746 after learning of living conditions there from Jacopo Amigoni , who had spent several years as an artist, and won the Duke of Richmond as a patron. The pictures he created there appear lighter and livelier. They are among the best depictions of London in the 18th century. He spent the last years of his life in Venice again. His images grew darker, but they were still full of surprises.

Works (selection)

Listing :

  1. San Marco Square, Venice (1720s).
  2. Partial view of San Marco Square in Venice (around 1735).
  3. St. John and Paul area with the monument to Bartolomeo Colleoni (1741).
  4. Porta Portello, Padua (1741/1742).
  5. The Pra 'della Valle in Padua (1741–1746).
  6. View of London through Westminster Bridge (1747).
  7. Architectural capriccio with ruin and classicist buildings (1756).
  • Engravings and drawings by Canaletto

  • View from the Rialto Bridge over the Grand Canal

  • Water festival on the Grand Canal, Venice

  • Campo San Giovanni e Paolo, Venice

A monograph on Antonio Canal lists the following etchings :

  1. The title page.
  2. La Torre di Malghera.
  3. Mestre
  4. Al Dolo.
  5. A. le Porte del Dolo.
  6. La Porte del Dolo.
  7. Pra della Valle.
  8. On the Brenta Canal.
  9. The arch with the lantern.
  10. Murano.
  11. The house with MDCCCXLI AC (together with the following on one sheet)
  12. The house with the porch.
  13. The Cascade (single).
  14. La Libreria V. (together with the following 3 on one sheet)
  15. La Pieva del Bando V.
  16. The market square on the Ponte Rialto.
  17. La Preson V.
  18. The mountain landscape. (together with the following 3 on one sheet)
  19. The Osterie on the Canal.
  20. The terrace.
  21. La Procuratie nuove e S. Ziminian V.
  22. On the banks of the Brenta. (together with the following 3 on one sheet)
  23. The praying pilgrim.
  24. The ruined Thor.
  25. The gate building with the draw well.
  26. A Capo d'Istria. (together with the following on one sheet)
  27. The ruins of the pyramid.
  28. The image of Mary by the chapel. (together with the following 2 on one sheet)
  29. The landscape with the monument.
  30. The little bridge with the osterie.

Painted works are also performed there in England (see also :):

  1. Vue de la grande Promenade (Vauxhall Gardens)
  2. Vue de Canal et batiment chinois (Barclay's garden)
  3. Temple de Comus (Vauxhall Gardens)
  4. Vue de Center etc.
  5. Interior de Rotunda
  6. Vue de la grande Parade du Parc de S. James
  7. Vue de la maison de Northumberland
  8. Vue du Canal et de la maison de Buckingham

literature

  • Andreas Henning, Axel Börner, Andreas Dehmer (eds.): Canaletto. Views from the Grand Canal in Venice. Cabinet exhibition on the occasion of the restoration of two paintings by Giovanni Antonio Canal, called Canaletto (= The restored masterpiece. Vol. 5). Sandstein, Dresden 2008, ISBN 978-3-940319-28-9 .
  • JG Left: Canaletto. Complete revised, updated and enlarged. Phaidon, London 1994, ISBN 0-7148-3170-0 (Reprinted edition. Ibid 1999, ISBN 0-7148-3843-8 ).
  • Martin Schwander (Ed.): Venice. From Canaletto and Turner to Monet. Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2008, ISBN 978-3-7757-2240-7 .
  • Dorothea Terpitz: Giovanni Antonio Canal, called Canaletto. 1697-1768. Könemann, Cologne 1998, ISBN 3-8290-0684-5 .
  • Octave Uzanne : Canaletto. Parkstone Press International, New York NY 2008, ISBN 978-1-84484-505-7 .

Web links

Commons : Giovanni Antonio Canal, il Canaletto  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Giovanni Antonio Canal in the catalog of the Royal Picture Gallery in Dresden (1887)  - sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sotheby's, London , December 4, 2013, lot 39
  2. ^ Piazza San Marco , oil painting, 1720s, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, USA.
  3. ^ The Porta Portello, Padua , oil painting, c. 1741/1742, in the National Gallery of Art, USA.
  4. ^ Il Pra 'della Valle in Padova , oil painting, 1741–1746, in the Museo Poldi Pezzoli , Italy.
  5. ↑ Capriccio architettonico con rovine ed edifici classici , oil painting, around 1756, in the Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Italy.
  6. ^ The two Canaletto , Meyer, Rudolph, Dresden, 1878 in the Berlin State Library.
  7. ^ Royal Collection Trust - Canaletto , Windsor Castle, Great Britain.
personal data
SURNAME Canal, Giovanni Antonio
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Canaletto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian vedute and landscape painter
DATE OF BIRTH October 7, 1697
PLACE OF BIRTH Venice
DATE OF DEATH April 19, 1768
Place of death Venice