Giovanni Antonio Canal - known as Canaletto 1697 - 1768 Illustrated Books plate at the end

plate at the end

His drawings were praised by John Ruskin in Modern Painters

The spine is heavily sunned and marked but the book has lived in a slipcase from publication and otherwise is in near perfect condition

Good condition (Crease Marks)

The Hellenic Group of Companies Ltd and Abbeville Press (USA)

Giovanni Antonio Canal - known as Canaletto 1697 - 1768 Illustrated Books plate at the endFramed fine Art Reproduction From a painting by Giovanni Antonio Canal known as Canaletto 1697 1768 Giovanni Antonio Canal, better known as Canaletto, was an Italian painter of city views or vedette of Venice. He is considered by many to be the greatest of all of the Venetian Canal painters. He also painted imaginary views (referred to as capricci), although the demarcation in his works between the real and the imaginary is never quite clear cut. In