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Bernardo Bellotto

1721 - 1780

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Bernardo Bellotto (c. 1721/2 or 30 January 1721 – 17 November 1780), was an Italian urban landscape painter or vedutista, and printmaker in etching famous for his vedute of European cities – Dresden, Vienna, Turin, and Warsaw. He was the student and nephew of the renowned Giovanni Antonio Canal, known as Canaletto, and sometimes used the latter's illustrious name, signing himself as Bernardo Canaletto. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bernardo Bellotto has received more than 240,050 page views. His biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 38 in 2019). Bernardo Bellotto is the 179th most popular painter (up from 223rd in 2019), the 621st most popular biography from Italy (up from 751st in 2019) and the 48th most popular Italian Painter.

Bernardo Bellotto was an Italian painter and engraver who is most famous for his paintings of Venice.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Bernardo Bellotto ranks 179 out of 2,023. Before him are James Ensor, Angelica Kauffman, Hugo van der Goes, Pinturicchio, Niki de Saint Phalle, and Ivan Shishkin. After him are Fra Bartolomeo, Anton Raphael Mengs, Han van Meegeren, Anselm Kiefer, Johannes Itten, and Benozzo Gozzoli.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1721, Bernardo Bellotto ranks 2. Before him is Madame de Pompadour. After him are Countess Palatine Caroline of Zweibrücken, Duke Ferdinand of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz, Louis Victor, Prince of Carignano, Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes, Johann Kirnberger, Countess Palatine Elisabeth Auguste of Sulzbach, Prince William, Duke of Cumberland, Anna Dorothea Therbusch, and Abdulaziz bin Muhammad Al Saud. Among people deceased in 1780, Bernardo Bellotto ranks 3. Before him are Maria Theresa, and Étienne Bonnot de Condillac. After him are Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine, Duchess Maria Antonia of Bavaria, Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont, Jacques-Germain Soufflot, Francesco III d'Este, Duke of Modena, Duchess Luise of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Charles I, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Victor Amadeus II, Prince of Carignano, and Johann Ludwig Krebs.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Bernardo Bellotto ranks 621 out of 5,161. Before him are Publius Clodius Pulcher (-90), Frank Capra (1897), Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily (1782), Domenico Cimarosa (1749), Olybrius (400), and Arrigo Sacchi (1946). After him are Andrew III of Hungary (1265), Giuliano Gemma (1938), Giovanni Agnelli (1866), Baldassare Castiglione (1478), Vittorio Emanuele Orlando (1860), and Pope Stephen II (715).

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Among PAINTERS In Italy

Among painters born in Italy, Bernardo Bellotto ranks 48. Before him are Ambrogio Lorenzetti (1290), Filippino Lippi (1457), Gentile Bellini (1429), Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720), Niccolò dell'Abbate (1512), and Pinturicchio (1454). After him are Fra Bartolomeo (1472), Benozzo Gozzoli (1420), Domenichino (1581), Giulio Romano (1499), Pietro da Cortona (1596), and Pisanello (1395).

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