Bellotto
type: CreativeWork
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/3108368
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  alternate name: Fortification in art--Catalogs
abstract: Bernardo Bellotto (1722-1780) ranks amongst the very greatest view painters of eighteenth-century Europe. Today, he is best known for his views of northern European cities: large-scale works characterised by panoramic compositions, a strongly contrasted use of light and shadow, and meticulous attention to architectural detail.0This book provides an overview of Bellotto's life and career, as well as a record of the historic reuniting of his five spectacular views of the fortress of Koenigstein, displayed together for the first time in over 250 years, following the National Gallery's recent acquisition of The Fortress of Koenigstein from the North in 2017. Commissioned by August III, Elector of Saxony and King of Poland, these works depicting the fortress from different viewpoints are undoubtedly Bellotto's finest non-urban paintings. These remarkable pictures are imbued with a monumentality rarely seen at this time and the series dramatically illustrates the very different direction in which Bellotto took the tradition of European view painting.00Exhibition: National Gallery, London, UK (22.07-31.10.2021).
contributor: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/310211509
contributor: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/310211510
contributor: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/31069676
contributor: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/31172934
contributor: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/31182761
creator: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/310185248
language: eng
work example: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/301314271

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