What is Canaletto?
{{hatnote|[[Bernardo Bellotto]], a pupil of Canal, sometimes used the name Canaletto as well}} {{Infobox artist | name = Canaletto | image = Giovanni Antonio Canal.jpg | birth_name = Giovanni Antonio Canal | birth_date = {{birth date|1697|10|17|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Venice]] | death_date = {{death date and age|1768|4|19|1697|10|18|df=y}} | death_place = [[Venice]] | nationality = [[Italy|Italian]] | field = [[Landscape art]], [[etching]] | training = [[Luca Carlevaris]] | patrons = [[Owen Swiny]]<br>[[Joseph Smith (1682–1770)|Joseph Smith]] }} '''Giovanni Antonio Canal''' (18 October 1697 – 19 April 1768) was an [[Italy|Italian]] [[painter]] from [[Venice]]. Today, he is mostly remembered for his landscape paintings. Some of these landscape paintings which resemble the views found on modern-day [[postcard]]s are known as [[Vedute]]s today. He was also an important [[printmaker]] in [[etching]]. [[File:Canaletto Entrance to the Grand Canal Venice.jpg|thumb|250px|''The Grand Canal and the Church of the Salute'', painted 1730.]] ==Related pages== * [[List of Italian painters]] {{bio-stub}} [[Category:1697 births]] [[Category:1768 deaths]] [[Category:18th-century Italian painters]]