Canaletto. Rome, Londre, Venise. Le triomphe de la lumière. Arts graphiques From the earliest times to

From the earliest times to the end of the Middle Kingdom

Through these clay images

of the commercial fetishization of his works

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and who had sought among the philosophers of Athens reasons to believe in their destiny

Canaletto. Rome, Londre, Venise. Le triomphe de la lumière. Arts graphiques From the earliest times toGiovanni Antonio Canal, known as Canaletto (1697 1768), the undisputed master of "view" painting, magnified Venice by showing it with great topographical precision and an unparalleled treatment of light. But do we know that he began his career as a painter in Rome, and that he spent nearly ten years of his life in England, painting the banks of the Thames in London and the castles of the most prominent figures of the nobility of the time? For the