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Bellotto

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

noun

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


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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

But the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, which ultimately came to possess the third Bellotto, has rejected the Emden heirs’ claims since 2007.

From New York Times • Aug. 17, 2021

Also for sale is a Venetian scene by Bellotto, estimated to bring $800,000 to $1.2 million.

From New York Times • Nov. 29, 2012

Canaletto's limpid perspectives and probing, fizzy line supplied it all, as did the work of Bernardo Bellotto, his nephew and imitator.

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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