Veduta del Monte Etna della parte di Levante, compresa in essa Aci Re : le

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Veduta del Monte Etna della parte di Levante, compresa in essa Aci Re : le

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Drawing shows a balloon ascending above the crater of Mount Etna, ca. 1800, with six people in the foreground observing the balloon.
Landauer Collection of Aeronautical Prints and Drawings.
Reference copy may be available in LOT 4700 A.
This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.
Caption card tracings: Italy Sicily; Volcanoes; Italy Mt. Etna; Balloons; Geogr.; Shelf.

A veduta, plural vedute, is a highly detailed, usually large-scale painting or, more often print, of a cityscape or some other landscape. The painters of vedute are referred to as vedutisti. Veduta was introduced by northern European artists, most likely Flanders who worked in Italy, such as Paul Brill (1554–1626), a landscape painter who produced a number of marine views and scenes of Rome that were purchased by visitors. Among the most famous of the vedutisti are four Venetians. Canaletto was probably the greatest of the vedutisti, produced Venetian architecture works. Giacomo Guardi (1678–1716), Giannantonio Guardi (1699–1760), and Francesco Guardi (1712–93), also produced a great number of views of Venice. Giovanni Pannini (c. 1691–1765/68) was the first artist to concentrate on painting ruins.

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