Bernardo Bellotto

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Bernardo Bellotto
Detail of Self-portrait as Venetian ambassador (c. 1765)
Born	30 January 1721 Venice, Venetian Republic
Died	17 November 1780 Warsaw, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Resting place	Capuchin Church, Warsaw, Poland
Nationality	Venetian
Known for	Landscape painting
Notable work	View of Warsaw from Praga, Dresden From the Right Bank of the Elbe Above the Augustus Bridge
Patron(s)	Stanislaus II Augustus

Bernardo Bellotto (c. 1721/2^[1][2] or 30 January 1721^[3] – 17 November 1780),^[3] was an Italian^[4] urban landscape painter or vedutista, and printmaker in etching famous for his vedute of European cities – Dresden, Vienna, Turin, and Warsaw. He was the student and nephew of the renowned Giovanni Antonio Canal, known as Canaletto, and sometimes used the latter's illustrious name, signing himself as Bernardo Canaletto.^[3] In Germany and Poland, Bellotto called himself by his uncle's name, Canaletto. This caused some confusion, however Bellotto’s work is more sombre in color than Canaletto's and his depiction of clouds and shadows brings him closer to Dutch painting.^[5]

Bellotto's style was characterized by elaborate representation of architectural and natural vistas, and by the specific quality of each place's lighting. It is plausible that Bellotto, and other Venetian masters of vedute, may have used the camera obscura in order to achieve superior precision of urban views.^[2]