Les petits secrets des grands tableaux Vue de Varsovie depuis la terrasse du Chateau Royal, Bernardo Bellotto, 1773 (Season 4, Episode 5)
TV Episode | 26 min | Documentary

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Les petits secrets des grands tableaux

Vue de Varsovie depuis la terrasse du Chateau Royal, Bernardo Bellotto, 1773 (Season 4, Episode 5)

TV Episode | 26 min | Documentary

Born in Venice in 1721, trained by his famous uncle Canaletto, the famous landscape painter Bernardo Bellotto did not stick to the City of the Doges. He was rather the rolling stone kind, traveling from one European court to another (...See moreBorn in Venice in 1721, trained by his famous uncle Canaletto, the famous landscape painter Bernardo Bellotto did not stick to the City of the Doges. He was rather the rolling stone kind, traveling from one European court to another (Dresden, Vienna, Munich). In 1764, he accepted an invitation from Poland's newly elected King Stanislaus Augustus Poniatowski later (from 1768) to become his court painter in Warsaw.. Happy to work in Poland at he service of an enlightened monarch he settled down and remained there for 16 years, until his death. This is where, in 1773, he painted an intriguing "veduta" of the Polish capital and the environs of the Castle entitled "A View of Warsaw from the Royal Castle". Written by Guy Bellinger See less