i'm off of work next week. perhaps a drive to new haven is in order
Exhibition Offers Fresh View Of Canaletto's English Years
By DEBORAH HORNBLOW, Courant Arts Writer
The 18th century artist Giovanni Antonio Canale - better known as "Canaletto" - was a reluctant traveler, but at the height of his career as Venice's leading view painter, he left his native city for an almost decade-long tour of England.This period of Canaletto's career was previously regarded by most curators and academics as one of decline. The traditional view of the artist's time in England was that "he spent a lot of time waiting for the phone to ring," says Charles Beddington, guest curator of the major new exhibition "Canaletto in England: A Venetian Artist Abroad, 1746-1755," which opened Oct. 19 at the Yale Center for British Art in New Haven. Beddington's aim in the new show is not only to refute the notion that Canaletto's English years were idle but to demonstrate beyond a doubt that the artist's sojourn marked a fertile and impressive period of his career.
"Canaletto in England" does just that. Five years in the making, the exhibition presents 59 drawings and paintings that provide glorious and ample evidence of just how productive and creative Canaletto's English years were. Chief among them are the view paintings or "verdute," renderings of architectural monuments from Westminster Bridge to Warwick Castle, the Old Horse Guards from St. James Park to Syon House. .......
Giovanni Antonio Canal, called Canaletto (1697-1768), Rome: The Arch of Constantine from the South (The Colosseum beyond), ca. 1752/4, oil on canvas. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles.
(Photo courtesy of the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles.)
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