A Canaletto painting from the "high point" of his career is on the block at Christie's Old Masters in July and is estimated at $26 million.

Canaletto's 18th century painting, The Stonemason’s Yard, depicts stone workers in a Venetian city square. The National Gallery, London A Canaletto painting that spent four years hidden in a ...

Canaletto was previously thought to have made the painting. The Grand Canal with San Simeone Piccolo (around 1737) shows the church of San Simeone Piccolo on the right and the demolished church of ...

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They give an almost complete record of the journey along ... It’s thought that Canaletto based the paintings on sketches made on a visit in 1719-20 rather than making a new visit.

This group is the most complete series of the Grand Canal ... produced from sketches the artist used to produce the paintings. Canaletto in Venice runs until 23 April. It will transfer to the ...

And Canaletto, never mind his rivals, might have ended up sketching caricatures on the banks of the Grand Canal like every other struggling artist. “Venice: Canaletto and His Rivals,” which comes to ...

At Christie’s this week, a pair of Venetian vedute (topographical) paintings by Giovanni Antonio Canal, known as Canaletto, sold for £9.7 million (US$12.2 million). The paintings, which were ...

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Canaletto is a universal favourite. He apparently paints what he sees and what he sees is mostly the beauties of Venice. He was by no means the whole story of Venetian art in the 18th century ...