Bernardo Bellotto 1740

This volume is dedicated to BernardoBellotto (1722-1780), grandson of Canaletto and protagonist of 18thcentury landscape painting. It explores the less investigated period ofthe Venetian painter's life, the one preceding the successful careerundertaken in the European courts starting from 1747, the year in whichhe moved to Dresden.

In the age of the Grand Tour, the eighteenyear old Bellotto visited the great Italian art cities, leaving us withexceptional views that already reveal the peculiar characteristics andmodernity of his painting.

This book contains precious and rareworks, among which are the ones related to the itinerary followed by thepainter in Tuscany in 1740, and the series dedicated to the city ofLucca, coming from the British Library in London and the York ArtGallery, along with the views of Florence and Livorno.

Edited byBozena Anna Kowalczyk, one of the greatest scholars of Canaletto andBellotto, the volume is divided into sections introduced by textsresulting from new and unpublished historical and archival research, andis completed by a documentary appendix, bibliography and indicies.

Text in English and Italian.