Canaletto. Rome, Londre, Venise. Le triomphe de la lumière. Arts graphiques in one of its most

in one of its most prestigious museums

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of the commercial fetishization of his works

he inaugurated the cloisonnist style

granted him full powers

Canaletto. Rome, Londre, Venise. Le triomphe de la lumière. Arts graphiques in one of its mostGiovanni Antonio Canal, known as Canaletto (1697 1768), the undisputed master of "view" painting, magnified Venice by showing it with great topographical precision and an unparalleled treatment of light. But do we know that he began his career as a painter in Rome, and that he spent nearly ten years of his life in England, painting the banks of the Thames in London and the castles of the most prominent figures of the nobility of the time? For the