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I dislike one phrase in the lead - "They served as the equivalent of painted postcards for those able to afford the price." I can't understand how Canaletto's vast canvases may be compared to postcards. Should we remove this? --Ghirla | talk 18:03, 23 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Birthdate correction[edit]

I am pretty sure that the correct day of birth is October 18, not October 7. FlyPanAma 04:44, 6 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The Stonemason's Yard dates[edit]

Just to confirm something: the caption for this image says that it was painted between 1726 and 1730, but this source says that it was painted between 1727 and 1728. Which source should I trust? happyangrysad 20:53, 6 November 2008 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.150.84.225 (talk) [reply]

New article - list of paintings[edit]

I think we could split this article and make one dedicated to a list of Canaletto's paintings. There are about 200 known Canaletto paintings (over 50 only in the Royal Collection), so I don't think a list within the artist's main article is a good idea. (Felipeml (talk) 22:19, 17 November 2015 (UTC))[reply]

We could, but why? If this article were longer I would be more enthusiastic. The list is more complete than many, though missing the dozen or so at Woburn Abbey, & many in Italy and France. Johnbod (talk) 02:52, 18 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I agree, a list attempting completeness should be split off from the main article, it is unwieldly in the context of the text and pictures, and it feels like scrolling through a desert going down to the bottom. Maybe the article could have a shortened list of his most celebrated paintings. Curiocurio (talk) 02:38, 15 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with the above that it's worth splitting out the list. It is quite lengthy scrolling through all the images--which while beautiful are slightly repetitive when seen in this context. A separate article would make sense. I'd do this split myself, but I'm not too familiar with unmerging pages etc... Sportzak (talk) 18:35, 19 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Venetian versus Italian[edit]

The issue of whether to group all painters in the Italian peninsula, south of the Alps under the label of Italian has been thoroughly discussed before. I get it. There was no "Italy" as a country in Canaletto's time. He would have thought of himself as a Venetian. But for me, Italy is an umbrella term. And as I have argued before, the main encyclopedic overviews of art south of the Alps from the 19th and 20th century use the term Italian to group painters including Canaletto. Someday, this may change in the future. But until then, I still maintain the Italian label.

See:

Rudolph Wittkower's entry on Canaletto in his Art and Architecture in Italy, 1600 to 1750
Canaletto by Baetjer, Katharine, and J. G. Links, with essays by J. G. Links, Michael Levey, Francis Haskell, Alessandro Bettagno, and Viola Pemberton-Pigott (1989), a monograph stating he was by far the most successful Italian painter of his day.
Also see Luigi Lanzi

Rococo1700 (talk) 20:03, 3 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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"Works"[edit]

This table badly needs to be moved to List of paintings by Canaletto. Johnbod (talk) 05:02, 5 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Seconded, and

Done --BjKa (talk) 09:53, 26 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]