Who was Canaletto?
Venetian painter of city views, known for exact, luminous pictures of Venice's canals and squares that travellers bought as souvenirs.
SketchMap AtlasArtists › Canaletto
Venice, drawn with precision · 1697–1768
Canaletto (1697–1768): venice, drawn with precision. SketchMap Atlas shows 2 sketches by Canaletto on the world map, each placed where it was drawn.
Venetian painter of city views, known for exact, luminous pictures of Venice's canals and squares that travellers bought as souvenirs. He used the camera obscura and careful drawing to place buildings precisely. He also worked in England for several years, painting London and the Thames.
Campo San Giacomo di Rialto
The Scala dei GigantiEvery sketch is pinned where it was drawn, so you can follow Canaletto from place to place.
Been to one of these places? Add your own sketch next to Canaletto’s.
Sketching routes with Canaletto: Venice: three centuries, one canal
Venetian painter of city views, known for exact, luminous pictures of Venice's canals and squares that travellers bought as souvenirs.
Venice. Every sketch is shown on the map at the place where it was made.
“Campo San Giacomo di Rialto” (18th century) and “The Scala dei Giganti” (18th century). Each one is pinned to the place where it was drawn.
Yes: Venice: three centuries, one canal. Each route walks through places where artists drew, with the sketches shown on a map in SketchMap Atlas.
The works shown here are marked “Public domain” and come from Wikimedia Commons. Check the source link of each work for the exact terms.
Albrecht Dürer
Egon Schiele
Utagawa Hiroshige
