Artwork
Old Market-Place in Dresden
Old Market-Place in Dresden is an oil painting by the Rococo painting artist Bernardo Bellotto. It dates from 1751 and is held in the collection of the Hermitage Museum.
About this work
Overview
Old Market-Place in Dresden is an oil painting by Bernardo Bellotto, created in 1751. It is held at the State Hermitage Museum.
Subject & Meaning
The painting depicts The Old Market in Dresden from Seegasse, capturing a bustling scene with people, horses, and wagons in a square lined with tall buildings featuring shops and warm-toned rooftops.
Technique & Style
Bellotto employed chiaroscuro, using the interplay of light and shadow to create depth and a sense of realism in the scene, rendering the buildings and figures with a soft, hazy quality.
Artist & collection
Artist
Bernardo Bellotto, was an Italian urban landscape painter or vedutista, and printmaker in etching famous for his vedute of European cities – Dresden, Vienna, Turin, and Warsaw.
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