![Venise, Le Grand Canal à l'entrée du Cannaregio by Bernardo Canal](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ca/Venise%2C_Le_Grand_Canal_%C3%A0_l%27entr%C3%A9e_du_Cannaregio_by_Bernardo_Canal.jpg)
Bernardo Canal (1664,
Venice
Venice ( ; it, Venezia ; vec, Venesia or ) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto Regions of Italy, region. It is built on a group of 118 small islands that are separated by canals and linked by over 400 ...
- 1744, Venice) was an Italian painter; father of the famous painter, Giovanni Antonio Canal, known as
Canaletto
Giovanni Antonio Canal (18 October 1697 – 19 April 1768), commonly known as Canaletto (), was an Italian painter from the Republic of Venice, considered an important member of the 18th-century Venetian school.
Painter of city views or ...
. Although he earned his living as a theatrical scene painter, he is best known for his
vedute
A ''veduta'' (Italian for "view"; plural ''vedute'') is a highly detailed, usually large-scale painting or, more often, print of a cityscape or some other vista. The painters of ''vedute'' are referred to as ''vedutisti''.
Origins
This genre ...
; created under the direct inspiration of his contemporary,
Luca Carlevarijs
Luca Carlevarijs or Carlevaris (20 January 1663 – 12 February 1730) was an Italian painter and engraver working mainly in Venice. He pioneered the genre of the cityscapes (''vedute'') of Venice, a genre that was later widely followed by artis ...
.
Biography
In 1695, he married Artemisia Barbieri (c.1670-?), about whom little is known.
[Delneri, Annalia; ''Da Canaletto a Zuccarelli: il paesaggio veneto del Settecento'', 2003, Provincia di Udine, Assessorato alla Cultura ] In 1717, he made his first appearance on the list of members of the Venetian painters' guild and was recognized therein as a member of the College of Painters. That organization awarded him the title of "Prior" in 1739.
During his life, he was best known as a painter of theatrical sets for works by
Antonio Vivaldi
Antonio Lucio Vivaldi (4 March 1678 – 28 July 1741) was an Italian composer, virtuoso violinist and impresario of Baroque music. Regarded as one of the greatest Baroque composers, Vivaldi's influence during his lifetime was widespread a ...
,
Fortunato Chelleri
Fortunato Chelleri (originally: Keller, also: Kelleri, Kellery, Cheler) (May or June 1690 in Parma – 11 December 1757 in Kassel) was a Baroque Kapellmeister and composer.
Biography
Chelleri's father had emigrated from Germany to Italy; h ...
,
Carlo Francesco Pollarolo
Carlo Francesco Pollarolo (ca. 1653 – 7 February 1723) was an Italian composer, organist, and music director. Known chiefly for his operas, he wrote a total of 85 of them as well as 13 oratorios. His compositional style was initially indebted t ...
and
Giuseppe Maria Orlandini at the
Teatro San Angelo
The Teatro San Angelo (in Venetian dialect) or Teatro Sant' Angelo (in Italian) was once a theatre in Venice which ran from 1677 until 1803.
It was the last of the major Venetian theatres to be built in the 1650s–60s opera craze following Teatr ...
and the
Teatro San Cassiano The Teatro San Cassiano (or Teatro di San Cassiano and other variants) in Venice was the world’s first public opera theatre, inaugurated as such in 1637. The first mention of its construction dates back to 1581. The name with which it is best know ...
.
Later, he turned to painting urban scenes of Venice and, together with his son, helped popularize ''vedute''.
Both of their styles are characterized by a meticulous attention to architectural detail and lighting effects.
References
External links
More works by Canal@ ArtNet
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1664 births
1744 deaths
Painters from Venice