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An Outsider Sees Blue Sky Through The Smog
by Paul Bass | Oct 18, 2006 11:50 am
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Posted to: Arts
London looked like this to an Italian painter in 1746. At least he painted it that way. It didn’t look that way to Brits. In a press preview for “Canaletto in England: A Venetian Artist Abroad, 1746-1755,” a new exhibit at the Yale Center for British Art, a guest curator explained how the sky ended up blue in the picture.
The exhibit features 59 works by the 18th century Italian painter Canaletto, whose formal name was Giovanni Antonia Canal. The exhibit covers the nine years he lived in England, an underappreciated but important part of his career. The exhibit opens Thursday.
Click on the play arrow to hear curator Julia Marciari-Alexander explain at a press preview Tuesday why the work of an “Italian” painter belongs in a “British” museum.
An outsider’s eyes often offer a fresh perspective on one’s home. No Brit would have portrayed a scene like Canaletto’s Westminister Bridge, with the Lord Mayor’s Procession on the Thames (1746-1747), for instance. (The painting’s shown at the top of this article.) Click on the play arrow below to hear guest curator Charles Beddington describe why—and offer clues by looking at an earlier painting beside it of Venice (The Molo from the Bacino di San marco on Ascension Day, with the Bucintoro).
For more information on the exhibit, click here and here.
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