Milan: Bellotto and Canaletto

Canaletto, Grand Canal Venezia

Antonio Canal, the "true" Canaletto (Venice 1697-1768) and Bernardo Bellotto (Venice 1722-Warsaw 1780) even by first sight almost interchangeable, hide many differences. 

Among the major exponents of the Venetian landscapes which was a trade mark of the Europe's 18th-century, they developed their own individual style and personality: 

Canaletto

Canaletto understood viscerally linked to the lagoon and its light;

Bellotto expanded his horizons by traveling through Italy and Europe, looking at the Dutch landscape and leaving history and heritage in cities like Dresden and Warsaw (rebuilt after the Second World war thanks to his paintings, precise and detailed). 

Vienna, Bellotto

Artists similarity in style tells stories old centuries ago, but very alive due to the exhibition "Bellotto and Canaletto. 

'The wonder and light' till March next year will be in Italian galeries: one hundred works, including paintings, drawings and engravings, which reconstruct the artistic development of the two masters.

First one's paintings presents more mature masterpieces, those in which he notice the two distinct digits. Canaletto, who as a boy followed his father, a painter of theater sets, from which he learned the valuable art of "building the scene», who then improves them with the use of the optical chamber. 

The tool allows them to reproduce views, palaces, situations, gives him those prospective cuts broad that will make their views so unique and recognizable. 

Bellotoo: France

Precise expression with filling each and smallest detail makes paintings masterpieces-postcards that become the most perfect memories. 

Bellotto overcomes his uncle's scientific approach, and, while preferring to work live, builds his paintings following perfect geometries, there is no detail that is not in HD ("high definition.") 

Canaletto vibrates its warm light, search for the perfect move with a transparent painting from light touch, 

Bellotto intervenes chilling image, using cooler colors that overlaps giving depth to the canvas and an extreme light and dark. 

Mild uncle, dense grandson: two looks close, but distant.

Where:
Piazza Scala
Milan, Piazza della Scala 6
Historical center - Brera
800167619

When:
Till 05/03/2017
  
PRICE

10 euros

Key words: Milan, art, galleries, Belloto, Canaletto, landscape, postcard, Italy Europe.