On Reflection: Northern landscapes

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://eclecticlight.co/2026/03/04/on-reflection-northern-landscapes/

Paintings of British Cathedrals and Abbeys: Constable and others

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://eclecticlight.co/2026/02/22/paintings-of-british-cathedrals-and-abbeys-constable-and-others/

What are the odds? Roadworks and water leak create little canal in front of house where painter called Little Canal lived.

#ArtHistory #Canaletto #London #Soho #UrbanPhotography

I was fortunate to be able to take a day off today to spend a few hours at the Art Gallery of Ontario.

I looked much more closely at the old European paintings and was surprised how loose a lot of the brushwork was - some of Rembrandt's marks could have been made by Sargent. Thought I had really misremembered how precise painters used to be.

Then I spotted a #Canaletto.

#art #painting

Man, in der Innenstadt ist ja richtig was los. Dresden tanzt! - #CANALETTO - Das Dresdner Stadtfest vom 15. - 17. August 2025

https://www.canaletto-fest.de/

> Das war's: CANALETTO - Das Dresdner Stadtfest 2024 ist Geschichte! Es war einfach überwältigend - 2,5 Tage volles Programm auf beiden Elbseiten mit 10 Bühnen! Familien auf dem Altmarkt, Klassik, Rock und Pop auf dem Theaterplatz, Party am Königsufer und Trödelmarkt auf der Hauptstraße. Für jeden war etwas dabei!

Da verabredet man sich einmal für Freitagabend mit Bekannten und plötzlich so: Stadtfest. #Canaletto #Dresden

Highlight: SoulCycle an den Brühl’schen Terrassen/Terrassenufer.

Highlowlight: Das Publikum an der ’90er-Jahre-/Trash-Bühne* auf der anderen Elbseite, das bei Katy Perry’s “I kissed a girl” *zu* sehr abgegangen ist.

* meine Bezeichnung.

Homage to Canaletto

#SilentSunday #Clouds #Sky
#Pixelfed #Outdoors #Wolken
#Photography #BloomScrolling
#Nature #NaturePhotography #Fotografie #BlueSkies #Natur Giovanni Antonio Canal
(1697-1768) named #Canaletto

A Canaletto masterpiece sells for a record €37.8m at Christie’s London.

The 18th-century masterpiece captures Venice in full splendour on Ascension Day, with the Doge’s golden barge - the Bucintoro - at its centre.

Titled Venice, the Return of the Bucintoro on Ascension Day (c.1732) and once owned by Britain’s first prime minister Robert Walpole, the work exceeded its estimate of $20m.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20250702-a-canaletto-masterpiece-sells-for-a-record-378m-at-christies-london?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

#Canaletto #Painting #Art #Christies #Venice #Auction