National Gallery, LondonBernardo Bellotto, the nephew and pupil of Canaletto, channelled his master's Venetian magic into these five sublime views of a fortress in deepest Germany We like to identify great upheavals in the arts with new centuries. So Romanticism began on 1 January 1800? Well, Turner and Beethoven were well into their stride by then. And modernism came along on the same date in 1900? Hmm, that makes it hard to account for Van Gogh, Munch and Cézanne. The National Gallery's small...
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The Guardian - 21 Jul 2021 16:56
National Gallery, LondonBernardo Bellotto, the nephew and pupil of Canaletto, channelled his master's Venetian magic into these five sublime views of a fortress in deepest Germany We like to identify great upheavals in the arts with new centuries. So Romanticism began on 1 January 1800? Well, Turner and Beethoven were well into their stride by then. And modernism came along on the same date in 1900? Hmm, that makes it hard to account for Van Gogh, Munch and Cézanne. The National Gallery's small...
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