Talk:Bernardo Bellotto

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This article contains mistakes in grammar and composition and needs re-writing. Simon

Changed the part about use of camera obscura...the article stated as fact that Bellotto, Canaletto, etc. used it, with no evidence presented or citations. This is a controversial statement, both from an artistic and practical point of view. So I simply changed the phrase to read that is "plausible" that they used. I dont have an artistic political agenda...but no real evidence that I know of proves this. Any good artist, skilled in perspective projection and architectural drawing can develop convincing perspectives. Some reports state that drawing or painting with a camera obscura is problematic.--Matt Aufderheide

The first two sentences are true according to Michael Levey's "Painting in 18th Century Venice", but I believe may cause some confusion in readers new to the subject. Antonio Canal is commonly known as Canaletto. In the United States Bellotto is never called Canaletto. While in Poland he began signing his pictures "Bellotto de Canaletto" and is sometimes called Canaletto in Europe. I think that it would be better to state that he was Antonio Canal's nephew early on and leave his use of the Canaletto name until later in the article. It should be made clear which is the more famous Canaletto although Bellotto is famous in his own right. Nicodemus (talk) 22:55, 23 October 2016 (UTC)Oldsilenus

Date of Birth - 1722
it seems that Bozena Anna Kowalczyk (an expert on Belotto) wrote in 1995 that his DOB was May 20, 1722. This is written on a web page on "Arte Ricerca", authored by Dario Succi. For some reason the Arte Ricerca site is on WP's black list, so something may be wrong with it. In any event since 1995 the consensus on Belotto's DOB may have changed. In recent publications only the year (1772) seems to be mentioned. What is certain is that for a 2001 exposition entitled BERNARDO BELLOTTO 1722-1780, at Museo Correr in Venice Kowalczyk wrote an essay in the exposition's catalogue. So, if we consider Kowalczyk an expert (Christie's do: they relied on her opinion to establish the authenticity of a painting by Belotto http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?intObjectID=4892969), then her participation in the writing of the catalogue would suggest she does not object to identifying 1722 as the year Belotto was born (a long winded line of reasoning, but the only one with no gaping holes). --Atavi (talk) 00:55, 4 April 2011 (UTC)

very thin
This article is very thin. If you want to know about Bellotto and can read German, go to the German Wiki entry. For example, the English article says nothing at all about his time spent at the courts of Vienna (Maria Theresa) and Munich. It does not mention his unhappy time as a reluctant 'instructor in perspective' at the Academy in Dresden when he returned there from Munich to sort out his affairs after his house was destroyed in the Prussian bombardment. It says nothing about the fact that his Rococo-style painting had gone out of fashion in Dresden. It says nothing about his painting techniques or about the relationship between fact and fantasy in his vedute. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.35.133.219 (talk) 09:08, 23 June 2014 (UTC)

These are wonderful observations. I strongly recommend that the contributor improve the article.Rococo1700 (talk) 03:01, 7 October 2016 (UTC)

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