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Bellotto

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[buh-lot-oh, bel-lawt-taw] / bəˈlɒt oʊ, bɛlˈlɔt tɔ /

noun

  1. Bernardo Canaletto, 1720–80, Italian painter.


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Tinterow said that after the Monuments Men Foundation contacted him, he became aware the museum’s online provenance information about the painting was incorrect, because it conflated the provenance of both Emden’s and Moser’s Bellotto paintings.

From New York Times • Aug. 17, 2021

In 1938, the Jewish department-store magnate Max Emden, who left Germany before the Nazis took power, sold three city views by the 18th-century painter Bernardo Bellotto to an art buyer for Hitler.

From New York Times • Aug. 17, 2021

Mayor Klaus-Peter Hanke said the city had only recently made efforts to capitalize on the brightly repainted and repaired historic downtown, immortalized in the paintings of Bernardo Bellotto in the 18th century.

From New York Times • Jun. 5, 2013

Even two centuries later, the most famous master in the country bore the name of Bernardo Bellotto, a nephew of Canaletto.

From Time Magazine Archive

A later group, the Venetians of the eighteenth century, consisted of Canaletto, Bellotto, Guardi, and others who painted again and again the idle canals and pleasure-loving palaces of Venice.

From A Short History of Italy (476-1900) by Sedgwick, Henry Dwight

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