Canaletto & Bellotto

$50.00 at de Young Museum.

This volume journeys into eighteenth-century Europe, tracing how two Venetian painters reshaped our idea of the modern city.   Venetian painter Antonio Canaletto and his nephew Bernardo Bellotto used their richly detailed cityscapes to shape public understanding of the places they depicted. In this innovative study, Mateusz Mayer uses Canaletto and Bellotto’s work as a lens to examine how Venice became the stage for a resplendent republican tradition, London a vision of bourgeois pride, and Vienna a setting…