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forthcoming
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- ISBN 9783777447551
- Weight: 900g
- Dimensions: 180 x 240mm
- Publication Date: 11 Jun 2026
- Publisher: Hirmer Verlag
- Publication City/Country: DE
- Product Form: Hardback
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A journey back to eighteenth-century Europe: this volume vividly reveals how the two painters Canaletto and Bellotto used the latest optical instruments and analytical observation to create a fascinatingly lifelike image of urban architecture. At the same time, through theatrical staging, they transformed streets and squares into vibrant platforms for human society – populated by aristocrats and street vendors, courtly ceremony and everyday labour. Their pictures offer a wealth of narrative detail in which viewers are only too happy to lose themselves.
Mateusz Mayer has been Junior Curator of the Picture Gallery at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna since 2025
