Canaletto (Antonio Canal, called Canaletto) Venice, Canaletto 1697-1768 aprendilos principles of painting and theatrical set designers spacious decorator, trade which helps his father Bernardo. In 1719, in the company of his father, realizun trip to Rome where I recognized the work of a lover vedutista Classics ruins and great views, Giovanni Paolo Pannini. At its formation as a painter are prominent, the influence they had on the artist, the work of Luca Carlevaris and Marco Ricci. Back in Venice, in 1720, he entered the painters' guild, and is on his record until 1767. In the decade of 1720-1730 was dating his first views of Venice: Stefano Conti orders and the prince of Liechtenstein. His friendship with the Brits Consul Joseph Smith, chief customer and diffuser of his art in Britain, also dating from those years. Between 1740 and 1741 realizun trip through the river Brenta, which runs along numerous drawings and paintings. In 1746 England, where permanecicon travels a series of intervals, until 1756. That stage is the views of English and London Campia. In 1760 new estde continusu documented in Venice where pictorial activity, but is detected and a regresin in their creative abilities. Canaletto was appointed in 1763, member of the Academy of Painting and Sculpture. At the height of his painting, one must put their jobs as a draftsman and printmaker, emphasizing his series of etchings as dedicated to the Consul Smith, Vedute altre prese dai luoghi altre ideated. Much of its production was destined for foreign collectors passing through Venice, during the Grand Tour, acquire their paintings.