Bellotto

American  

[buh-lot-oh, bel-lawt-taw] / bəˈlɒt oʊ, bɛlˈlɔt tɔ /

noun

1. Bernardo Canaletto, 1720–80, Italian painter.

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Example Sentences

But the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, which ultimately came to possess the third Bellotto, has rejected the Emden heirs’ claims since 2007.

From New York Times • Aug. 17, 2021

Tinterow said that after the Monuments Men Foundation contacted him, he became aware the museum’s online provenance information about the painting was incorrect, because it conflated the provenance of both Emden’s and Moser’s Bellotto paintings.

From New York Times • Aug. 17, 2021

Mayor Klaus-Peter Hanke said the city had only recently made efforts to capitalize on the brightly repainted and repaired historic downtown, immortalized in the paintings of Bernardo Bellotto in the 18th century.

From New York Times • Jun. 5, 2013

He is Bernardo Bellotto, a Venetian vedutista, or landscape painter, whose views of 18th century Warsaw are the most perfect record of the city to survive the war.

From Time Magazine Archive

A later group, the Venetians of the eighteenth century, consisted of Canaletto, Bellotto, Guardi, and others who painted again and again the idle canals and pleasure-loving palaces of Venice.

From A Short History of Italy (476-1900) by Sedgwick, Henry Dwight