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Giovanni Antonio Canal (17 or 18 October 1697 – 19 April 1768), better known as Canaletto (), was an Italian painter of landscapes, or ''vedute'', of Venice. He was also an important printmaker in etching. Canaletto, together with Giambattista Pittoni, Giovan Battista Tiepolo, Giovan Battista Piazzetta, Giuseppe Maria Crespi and Francesco Guardi forms the ultimate group of Venetian old master painters. ==Early career== He was born in Venice as the son of the painter Bernardo Canal, hence his mononym ''Canaletto'' ("little Canal"), and Artemisia Barbieri.〔("Canaletto", National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. )〕 Bernardo Bellotto was his nephew and pupil. Canaletto served his apprenticeship with his father and his brother. He began in his father's occupation, that of a theatrical scene painter. Canaletto was inspired by the Roman ''vedutista'' Giovanni Paolo Pannini, and started painting the daily life of the city and its people. After returning from Rome in 1719, he began painting in his topographical style.〔 His first known signed and dated work is ''Architectural Capriccio'' (1723, Milan, in a private collection).〔 Studying with the older Luca Carlevarijs, a moderately-talented painter of urban cityscapes, he rapidly became his master's equal. In 1725, the painter Alessandro Marchesini, who was also the buyer for the Lucchese art collector Stefano Conti, had inquired about buying two more 'views of Venice', when the agent urged him to consider instead the work of "Antonio Canale... it is like Carlevaris, but you can see the sun shining in it."〔J.G. Links, Canaletto and his patrons, Granada Publishing/Paul Elek Ltd., London 1977. p. 1.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Canaletto」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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