Canaletto-Blick
Riverside viewpoint recreating an eighteenth-century painted panorama of the baroque Old Town skyline.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Canaletto-Blick in Dresden is about a name: the one signed on views of the city by Bernardo Bellotto, a young Venetian who arrived at the Saxon court in the seventeen-forties. It follows his famous uncle to London, the rival English artists and their rumours, and the antiquary George Vertue who tried to untangle who was who. Stand facing the river with the Augustus Bridge to your left as you listen.
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