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Canaletto was a skilled artist; he was
trained as a scene painter and spent decades drawing and painting
views of Venice, recording details of the city with amazing precision.
Some art historians think he might have used a camera obscura, a box
fitted with a lens at one end and a mirror on the other that reflects
an image onto the canvas.
Canaletto's paintings are so accurate that researchers studying
climate change have used them to estimate the rate of change in
the water level of the Venetian lagoon. |
