Dresden's Old World elegance Sep 5, 2008
Nicknamed Florence on the Elbe, Dresden s beauty was immortalized in the mid-1700s in the oil paintings of Italian artist Canaletto (aka Bernardo Bellotto, nephew of the famous painter who went by the same name). Those paintings are on display in the Old Masters Picture Gallery in the Zwinger complex. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Travel)
Wild scenes at glimpse of what's on offer Aug 22, 2008
Canaletto in Adelaide. Jacques Carabain (1834-1920) is not exactly a name lit up with lights among the glorious pantheon of Australian artists, but the Amsterdam-born Belgian citizen was among a handful of European figures, including Girolamo Nerli and Arthur Loureiro, who came to Melbourne in the 1880s and spent time touring and painting. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Business)
Getty, Sainsbury Trusts Give $2.2 Million to Sir John Soane's House Museum Jul 24, 2008
The house -- a small maze of rooms with lunettes, concave mirrors and skylights -- has treasures worthy of the Louvre: the engraved sarcophagus of Egyptian Pharaoh Seti I, Hogarth's ``A Rake's Progress'' series of paintings and pictures by Canaletto. When he died a widower in 1837, estranged from his only surviving son, Soane ordered that his house be kept as it was, and opened free of charge to visitors and researchers. (Bloomberg -- UK)
Meet Holland America's Eurodam Jul 13, 2008
Among new venues on the ship is a pan-Asian restaurant called Tamarind where guests can dine on a complimentary dim sum lunch or pay $15 per person for dinner; Silk Den, a soothing bar adjacent to Tamarind serves delicious Saktinis; a casual Italian eatery named Canaletto; and a pizzeria named Slice. Other differences from previous Holland America ships include the addition of a new Explorers Lounge Bar, a new atrium bar area and an enhanced and reconfigured show lounge with theater-style... (MSNBC -- Travel)
Italian art heads for the heights in Lausanne Jul 7, 2008
Among the master artists on show are Carpaccio, Titian, Canaletto, Botticelli, Raphael and Pisanello. The exhibition could head to other museums after Lausanne. (SwissInfo.org, Switzerland)
Holland America Line's New ms Eurodam Blends Traditional Dutch Art and New Works Jun 27, 2008
In Canaletto, the new casual Italian restaurant, two glass sculptures mark the entrance ... Glass panels, on the walls in the Italian-themed Canaletto restaurant feature gold leaf and painted script from the Scandinavian team of Birgitta Ahlin and Sirkka Lehtonen. (PR Newswire)
Italian Artists Nicknames May 24, 2008
European Renaissance Artists Are Better Known by Alternate Names. Famous Western artists in 13th to 17th centuries have celebrated nicknames more famous than their given names. (Suite101.com)
Larger than life May 13, 2008
People down the other end of the building seem tiny, like the far-off figures in a Canaletto. Somewhere on the floor, dancers are rehearsing. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Gallery reaps high returns on lifelong habit Apr 4, 2008
James Fairfax has given works by Rubens, Canaletto, Boucher, van Ruisdael and others to the Art Gallery of NSW. Value: $25 million. Margaret Olley has given works by Degas, Bonnard and Vlaminck to the Art Gallery of NSW. Value: $7 million. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Exhibitions at The Met: Early 2009 Mar 29, 2008
Raphael to Renoir: Drawings from the Collection of Jean Bonna (January 21-April 26, 2009) features some 120 Italian, French and Northern European drawings from the Renaissance to the late 19th Century from a private Swiss collection, including works by , Andrea del Sarto, Claude Lorrain, Jean-Antoine Watteau, Canaletto, Th;odore G;ricault, Eug;ne Delacroix, Georges Seurat, Paul Gauguin and. Pierre Bonnard: Still Life and the Late Interiors (January 27-April 19, 2009) explores the interiors and... (Suite101.com)
Touring Milans Castello Sforzesco Oct 7, 2007
Pinoteca (Painting Gallery) Bellini and Canaletto paintings stand out in the early artists represented, one of Europe's best collections of 20th-century art features Picasso and his contemporaries. Museo della Preistoria e Protostoria (Prehistoric) Artifacts moastly from the Po Valley -- represent early civilizations from Paleolithic, Neolithic and Iron Ages. (Suite101.com)
More of this story Oct 6, 2007
Next to a painting of 18th century Venice by Canaletto, you can see a chopine with an 117/8-inch heel decorated with metallic braid and silk tassels, as well as a more luxurious chopine covered with gold metallic lace and silk velvet. Similarly, kabhabs (women s stilts) were platform shoes, but women wore these in the Turkish baths to keep their feet off wet floors. (Brockton Enterprise, MA)
Come the revolution Jul 28, 2007
But there are some good pictures, some familiar (by Canaletto, Manet, Monet, Gauguin, Lowry) and others new to me. Gran Turismo, painted by Megan Davies in 2005 and now in a private collection, shows two boys on a sofa absorbed by a video game. (Guardian Unlimited)
Nothing Borrowed, Something New Mar 1, 2007
They are Caravaggio, Fra Angelico, Hals, Zurbran, Canaletto, Boucher and Tiepolo. There are also paintings from the neoclassical and Romantic schools by such artists as Ingres and Delacroix. (CTNow.com)
Campaign to save nation's 1bn paintings Jan 25, 2007
Only three paintings on the list are owned by "New Money" a Canaletto bought by the composer Andrew Lloyd Webber for 10 million in 1992, a Joshua Reynolds desperately wanted by the Tate but bought by the Irish tycoon John Magnier in 2001, and a C;zanne bought by the London diamond retailer Lawrence Graff for 1. 3 million in 1989. (Yahoo News -- Art and Museums)
What a wonderful world Jan 23, 2007
if only England had looked the way Canaletto painted it ... Giovanni Antonio Canal, known as Canaletto, trained with his father as a painter of stage scenery for plays and operas, before becoming the leading painter of views of his native Venice, for which he built up a large clientele of rich and aristocratic patrons - many of them English, wanting souvenirs of their Grand Tour ... Trade dropped off during the war of the Austrian succession in the 1740s, and, in May 1746, at the age of 49,... (Guardian Unlimited)
Tate presses for law reform to save masterpieces Dec 9, 2006
This year alone, an important Dutch painting of the 17th century, an outstanding work by a precursor of Canaletto, and a Sienese masterpiece of the 14th century have been exported from the UK without so much as a whimper of protest. Senior figures, including Sir Nicholas Serota, director of the Tate, are pressing for an overhaul of the way masterpieces threatened with export are dealt with. (Guardian Unlimited -- UK)
Not just postcards from London Dec 3, 2006
Exhibit highlights Canaletto's exquisite work during 10-year stay in England ... NEW HAVEN -- When your typical upper-class 18th century Brit went on his obligatory grand tour of Europe's great cultural attractions, one of the souvenirs he just had to bring home was a painting by Giovanni Antonio Canal, a.k.a., Canaletto ... Born in 1697, the son of a theatrical scene painter, Canaletto was famous throughout Europe for extraordinarily lucid views of his hometown of Venice, and his works were... (Boston Globe -- Living)
Exhibit: Canaletto at Yale Oct 26, 2006
Exhibition Offers Fresh View Of Canaletto's English Years. October 26, 2006 By DEBORAH HORNBLOW, Courant Arts Writer The 18th century artist Giovanni Antonio Canale - better known as "Canaletto" - was a reluctant traveler, but at the height of his career as Venice's leading view painter, he left his native city for an almost decade-long tour of England ... This period of Canaletto's career was previously regarded by most curators and academics as one of decline. (CTNow.com)
Arts extravaganzaEdinburgh's festival bosses get set for another summer Jul 28, 2006
There are major blockbuster shows - Mueck, Van Gogh and Canaletto to name a few - showing alongside work by Matt Stokes and off-site pieces by Scottish artists David Batchelor and Scott Laverie. EDINBURGH BOOK FESTIVAL - CATHERINE LOCKERBIE, DIRECTOR. (BBC News -- UK)
Lloyd Webber gives away 33m Jul 2, 2006
But his foundation also owns a Canaletto, bought by Lord Lloyd-Webber for 10m in 1992, a drawing by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and a painting by Sir John William Waterhouse, which cost him 6. 6m in 2000. (Independent)
moneyboxIs art a wise investment?Daniel Gross Jun 26, 2006
The huge portfolio it built up works by Canaletto and El Greco and proved quite profitablea compound annual return of 11. 3 percent between 1974 and 1999. (Slate)
Michael Winner refuses to stand on ceremony Jun 13, 2006
There are porcelain nuns in black underwear, very posh olive oils and bath stuff, good and expensive oil paintings in the style of Canaletto, Bruegel, impressionists and Dutch masters. A lot of women s clothes, less and less for men, table cloths, towels, T-shirts. (TimesOnline)
Buried treasure Apr 20, 2006
At the moment there is a fine Canaletto exhibition, George III having bought around 50 paintings and 150 drawings from Canaletto's greatest patron, the British consul in Venice, in 1762 ... In fact, many of the works have been shifted between palaces or bought, like the Canalettos, en bloc from other collections. (Guardian Unlimited -- UK)
Canaletto export ban extended Feb 23, 2006
Canaletto art export ban extended. Canaletto's The Interior of the Rotunda, Ranelagh was painted in 1754 ... A bar on two Canaletto paintings being sold abroad has been extended following an offer to buy the masterpieces. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
