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Bernardo Bellotto

1721 - 1780

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Bernardo Bellotto (c. 1721/2 or 30 January 1721 – 17 November 1780), was an Italian urban landscape painter or vedutista, and printmaker in etching famous for his vedute of European cities – Dresden, Vienna, Turin, and Warsaw. He was the student and nephew of the renowned Giovanni Antonio Canal, known as Canaletto, and sometimes used the latter's illustrious name, signing himself as Bernardo Canaletto. In Germany and Poland, Bellotto called himself by his uncle's name, Canaletto. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Bernardo Bellotto is the 184th most popular painter (down from 179th in 2019), the 698th most popular biography from Italy (down from 621st in 2019) and the 50th most popular Italian Painter.

Bernardo Bellotto was an Italian painter and engraver who is most famous for his paintings of Venice.

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Among painters, Bernardo Bellotto ranks 184 out of 2,023. Before him are Giulio Romano, Hugo van der Goes, Anton Raphael Mengs, Gustave Caillebotte, Niki de Saint Phalle, and Ivan Shishkin. After him are Franz Stuck, Chaim Soutine, Suzanne Valadon, Quentin Matsys, Gerhard Richter, and Angelica Kauffman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1721, Bernardo Bellotto ranks 2. Before him is Madame de Pompadour. After him are Duke Ferdinand of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz, Countess Palatine Caroline of Zweibrücken, Johann Kirnberger, Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes, Countess Palatine Elisabeth Auguste of Sulzbach, Louis Victor, Prince of Carignano, Prince William, Duke of Cumberland, Tobias Smollett, and Samuel von Brukenthal. Among people deceased in 1780, Bernardo Bellotto ranks 3. Before him are Maria Theresa, and Étienne Bonnot de Condillac. After him are Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine, Duchess Maria Antonia of Bavaria, Francesco III d'Este, Duke of Modena, Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont, Kristijonas Donelaitis, Ernest Frederick III, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen, Jacques-Germain Soufflot, Charles I, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, and Hiraga Gennai.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Bernardo Bellotto ranks 698 out of 5,161. Before him are Pope Donus (610), Tibullus (-50), Virna Lisi (1936), Rodolfo Graziani (1882), Alexander of Battenberg (1857), and Eros Ramazzotti (1963). After him are Marcus Velleius Paterculus (-19), Giovanni Battista Belzoni (1778), Giovanni Paisiello (1740), Constance, Queen of Sicily (1154), Giovanni di Bicci de' Medici (1360), and Cosimo II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (1590).

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Among PAINTERS In Italy

Among painters born in Italy, Bernardo Bellotto ranks 50. Before him are Pinturicchio (1454), Ambrogio Lorenzetti (1290), Umberto Boccioni (1882), Benozzo Gozzoli (1420), Fra Bartolomeo (1472), and Giulio Romano (1499). After him are Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720), Pietro da Cortona (1596), Agostino Carracci (1557), Rosso Fiorentino (1494), Francesco Guardi (1712), and Luca Giordano (1634).

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