Giuseppe Canella (28 July 1788 – 11 September 1847), also referred to as Giuseppe Canella the Elder, was an Italian painter.

Biography

Initially trained by his father Giovanni, an architect, fresco painter and set designer, Giuseppe Canella started out producing stage sets and decorating stately homes in

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and

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. His brother,

Carlo Canella Carlo Canella (1800 in Verona – 1879 in Milan) was an Italian painter. Biography Having received his artistic training from his father Giovanni, a decorator and set designer, Canella took part in the Brera exhibitions on a regular basis as from ...

, was also a painter. It may have been under the influence of

Pietro Ronzoni Pietro Ronzoni (1781 in Sedrina, Bergamo – 1861 in Bergamo) was an Italian painter. Biography Trained in Rome under the guidance of the landscape painter Luigi Campovecchio from Mantua, Ronzoni met Angelica Kauffman and Antonio Canova and forme ...

, a landscape painter of international renown active in Verona, that he took up landscape painting. The first views were not produced until 1815, after a short stay in

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. After making his debut at the Fine Art Exposition at the

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of 1818, he made a long journey through

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for study purposes. The set of 13 landscapes shown at the Expositions at the Brera in 1831 proved a great success with the public and critics alike, not least due to the fame achieved in

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with works exhibited in the Salons, commissions from Louis Philippe of Orleans and the award of a gold medal in 1830. He returned to

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in 1832 and devoted his energies to urban views characterised by an interest in the events of contemporary life and an atmospheric form of portrayal in evident competition with

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. Landscape came to predominate as from 1835 with subjects drawn from the Lombard countryside and lakes. The focus on poor and humble aspects of life formed part of the artist’s fundamental naturalism and coincided with a moralistic approach derived from the novelist

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. Crucial importance attaches in the artist’s mature period to his trip to

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in 1838–39. Among his pupils or painters influenced by Canela were Felice Giuseppe Vertua, Constantino Prinetti, and Giovanni Renica.* His son, Giuseppe Canella the Younger (Venice, 1837 - Padoa, 1913), was also a painter.

Works

Among his works are: *''Views of Paris and the Boulevards'' *''

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'' *''Harbor at

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'' *''New Street in Venice'' *''View of a Village—moonlight''

Notes

References

* Elena Lissoni
Giuseppe Canella
, online catalogu
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, 2010, CC BY-SA (source for biography). * * Saur, K. G., publisher (2000). ''The Artists of the World: A Bio-bibliographical Index A to Z''. Munich: K. G. Saur. .

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