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Italian, Rococo Painter. Bernardo Bellotto, pupil and nephew of Canaletto, had a highly successful international career. Under Canaletto's guidance, the young Bellotto traveled extensively in Italy. He went to Rome, Florence, Turin, Milan and Verona. In each city he left memorable images, demonstrating his ability to capture not only the architectural or natural features, but also the specific quality of the light in each place he visited. He spent ten years in Dresden and produced a remarkable series of wonderful views of the city and its surroundings. Bellotto had enormous success and his reputation spread throughout the whole of Central Europe. He was summoned to Vienna In 1758, where he painted views of the capital's Gothic and Baroque monuments. In late 1766, he went to Warsaw. His views of Warsaw are nearly all collected in the city's Royal Castle. Thanks to his faultless accuracy, they were used as a draft for rebuilding Warsaw after its near-total destruction in the Second World War. Bernardo Bellotto died in Warsaw in 1780.
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