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canaletto in London: one picture tells many stories

Posted on September 21, 2012 by Dave

Canaletto’s picture perfect painting for postcard tourist reproduction was just a bit too idyllic and ideal. He painted a View From the Thames from Lambeth Palace on a sparkling summer day in the middle of the eighteenth century. But what … Continue reading →

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canaletto: picture perfect postcard

Posted on September 15, 2012 by Dave

…The rumor went around town that this painter was not the real Canaletto, that the real Canaletto had stayed in Venice, or else that some assistant was working for him in London “in makeing or filling up his pieces…of works … Continue reading →