[Commlist] New book: Canaletto’s Camera (UCL Press)

UCL Press is delighted to announce the publication of a new open access 
book that may be of interest to list subscribers/Canaletto’s Camera /by 
Philip Steadman.
Download it free: https://bit.ly/43W2giW<https://bit.ly/43W2giW>


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*Canaletto’s Camera*/
/Philip Steadman
Free download: https://bit.ly/43W2giW<https://bit.ly/43W2giW>

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/Canaletto’s Camera/ explores the ways in which the great Venetian 
artist Antonio Canaletto (1697-1768) made use of the camera obscura – 
the forerunner of the photographic camera – as an aid to drawing and 
painting. It surveys Canaletto’s contacts with contemporary Venetian and 
Paduan scientists, in particular Francesco Algarotti who wrote on 
Newton’s philosophy and the camera obscura. Canaletto also relied on 
many measured drawings of Venetian buildings by his colleague Antonio 
Visentini, a debt that has not previously been recognised.

Steadman proposes that Canaletto used the camera for two purposes: 
tracing from real scenes, and copying and collaging drawings and 
engravings by other artists. By analysing camera sketches made by 
Canaletto in a notebook, he shows how the artist traced views in Venice 
and then altered the real scenes in his finished drawings and paintings. 
By using a reconstructed eighteenth-century design of camera obscura, 
the author and his colleagues have made drawings of views that Canaletto 
painted in London. Steadman has recreated both a veduta (a real view) 
and a capriccio (a fantasy) using Canaletto’s processes of 
‘photomontage’. The experiments are detailed in the book, shedding new 
light on the artist’s procedures, and emphasising how weak and permeable 
the boundary is between the two types of picture.

Free download: https://bit.ly/43W2giW<https://bit.ly/43W2giW>__

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