Domenico Bresolin (1813 – 1900) was an Italian painter and photographer, specializing in

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 ...

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Biography

He was born in

Padua Padua ( ; it, Padova ; vec, Pàdova) is a city and ''comune'' in Veneto, northern Italy. Padua is on the river Bacchiglione, west of Venice. It is the capital of the province of Padua. It is also the economic and communications hub of the ...

. He first trained as a decorative painter, but then dedicated himself to landscape paintings and architectural vedute. He traveled to

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, where he worked with the Hungarian painter Carlo Markò. From there he went to Rome. He did not find success however as a painter, and developed a career in outdoor photography, then in its infancy. In 1864, he began to teach courses in landscape art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice. One of his pupils was

Guglielmo Ciardi Guglielmo Ciardi (13 September 1842 – 5 October 1917) was an Italian painter. Biography He was born in Venice, the son of an official of the Austrian government. Ciardi enrolled in 1861 at the Venice Academy of Fine Arts, where he studied p ...

. His photographic archives were acquired by

Carlo Ponti (photographer) Carlo Ponti (–1893) was a Swiss-born optician and photographer active in Venice from about 1848.The History of the Discovery of CinematographyChapter Ten: 1860-1869/ref> Early life Carlo Ponti was born in Sagno in Canton Ticino, Switzerland ...

. ''Dizionario degli Artisti Italiani Viventi: pittori, scultori, e Architetti.''
by Angelo de Gubernatis. Tipe dei Successori Le Monnier, 1889, page 76.

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1813 births 1900 deaths Artists from Padua 19th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Italian photographers Italian vedutisti Painters from Venice 19th-century Italian male artists {{Italy-painter-19thC-stub