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Bernardo Bellotto // View of the Tiber in Rome with the Castel Sant' Angelo,

Bernardo Bellotto

Bernardo Bellotto (30 January 1720 – 17 October 1780) was an Italian urban landscape painter or vedutista, and printmaker in etching famous for his vedutes of European cities (Dresden, Vienna, Turin and Warsaw). He was the pupil and nephew of Canaletto and sometimes used the latter's illustrious name, signing himself as Bernardo Canaletto.

View of the Tiber in Rome with the Castel Sant' Angelo,

1743/1744, oil on canvas.

24" x 40".

Founders Society Purchase with funds from Mr. and Mrs. Edgar B. Whitcomb, 40.166 ©The Detroit Institute of Arts.