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The painting The painting in question is the 'Marketplace at Pirna' by Bernardo Bellotto, circa 1764. It's believed to be the one gifted to the museum in 1961 by art collector Samuel Kress.
Bernardo Bellotto was an Italian Old Masters painter who was born in 1722. How much does a Bernardo Bellotto cost? Bernardo Bellotto's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized ...
Two paintings by the 18th-century painter Bernardo Bellotto that Adolf Hitler purchased should be returned to the descendants of Max James Emden, a Jewish department-store magnate from Hamburg who ...
“The Lure of Dresden: Bellotto at the Court of Saxony,” Kimbell Museum of Art, through April 28 With its exhibition “The Lure of Dresden,” the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth has offered a rare ...
The painting was first sold at Christie's more than 250 years ago, in 1771. Bernardo Bellotto, View of Verona with the Ponte delle Navi (1745–47). Courtesy of Christie's Images, Ltd.
A photograph of Bernardo Bellotto’s The Marketplace at Pirna (ca. 1764), taken by art dealer Karl Haberstock after he bought it from Jewish collector Max Emden for Adolf Hitler, shows a faint ...
The star lot of Christie's sale was Bernardo Bellotto's View of Verona with the Ponte delle Navi, an enormous, ambitious canvas painted in around 1745-47 when the artist was in his mid-20s.
In 1747 Bellotto, no longer in Canaletto’s employ, was called to the Saxon court in Dresden, a city enamoured of all things Venetian.
Fiorenza, Bernardo Bellotto's mother, prepares a document protecting the painter in which she declares that the family has been abandoned by her husband Lorenzo and that the only goods in her ...