Canaletto

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Canaletto masterpiece has starring role at the proclamation of King Charles
The painter’s view of Venice, now in St James’s Palace, once hung in George III’s bedroom

Vanessa Thorpe

11, Sep, 2022 @10:00 AM

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Canaletto’s Venice Revisited review – pre-tourist masterpieces resist the climate crisis narrative
Linking Canaletto’s paintings of a fading Venice to current climate concerns seems a bit pointless – these stately home treasures already depicted decay

Jonathan Jones

29, Mar, 2022 @2:13 PM

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Little Canaletto’s sordid city in the sky – Bellotto: The Königstein Views Reunited review
Bernardo Bellotto, the nephew and pupil of Canaletto, channelled his master’s Venetian magic into these five sublime views of a fortress in deepest Germany

Jonathan Jones

21, Jul, 2021 @2:56 PM

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Graphic Goya, perverse Lucas and the man who christened pop art – the week in art
The Spanish artist’s macabre images appear at a perfect time in the US, while Sarah Lucas creates a hurricane and Richard Hamilton gets a well-deserved survey

Jonathan Jones

15, Jan, 2021 @1:35 PM

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Buckingham Palace art collection to go on gallery display for the first time
Masterpieces by Rembrandt, Van Dyck and Canaletto to be shown at Queen’s Gallery while palace is renovated

Mark Brown Arts correspondent

16, Aug, 2020 @1:43 PM

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The dark side of Andy Warhol and Britain's side-road surrealists – the week in art
What we will see in the king of pop art’s mirror, British stand up to be counted and a rare Canaletto gets an outing

Jonathan Jones

06, Mar, 2020 @11:37 AM

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Canaletto and the Art of Venice review – enigmatic artist blends into background
This well-informed documentary takes a welcome turn on its grand tour of the life of the popular Italian painter to focus on his remarkable agent, Joseph Smith

Andrew Pulver

27, Sep, 2017 @5:00 AM

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Judy Chicago, Canaletto and Marc Quinn: this week’s best UK exhibitions
The renowned feminist artist celebrates 50 years of Sgt Pepper’s, Venice is brought to life and a collection of macabre Georgian sculptures take over Sir John Soane’s Museum

Jonathan Jones

26, May, 2017 @8:30 AM

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Is it a Canaletto or a Bellotto? Don’t ask an art historian …
Scholars fail to spot nuances in art as true connoisseurship dies out, says expert

Dalya Alberge

15, Nov, 2015 @12:03 AM

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New exhibition of Canaletto's British paintings at Compton Verney gallery
Collection of pictures shows Italian artist’s view of ‘rule Britannia’ period of history

Mark Brown Arts correspondent

13, Mar, 2015 @6:56 PM

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Selfie-portrait of the artist: National Gallery surrenders to the internet

Art lovers don't like it but one leading gallery has given up trying to stop visitors taking snaps of themselves in front of the pictures

Zoe Williams

15, Aug, 2014 @4:40 PM

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Van Gogh's lodgings become art house – but is anyone at home?

Saskia Olde Wolbers' Artangel project creates a time-slip effect in the Brixton house once lived in by the Dutch artist in the 1870s

Adrian Searle

02, May, 2014 @2:41 PM

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