Giuseppe Canella

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Giuseppe Canella
Veduta del canale Naviglio preso sul ponte di S. Marco in Milano, 1834 (Fondazione Cariplo)
Born	(1788-07-28)July 28, 1788 Verona
Died	September 11, 1847(1847-09-11) (aged 59) Florence

Giuseppe Canella (28 July 1788 – 11 September 1847),^[1] also referred to as Giuseppe Canella the Elder, was an Italian painter.

Biography

Initially trained by his father Giovanni, an architect, fresco painter and set designer, Giuseppe Canella started out producing stage sets and decorating stately homes in Verona and Mantua. It may have been under the influence of Pietro Ronzoni, a landscape painter of international renown active in Verona, that he took up landscape painting. The first views were not produced until 1815, after a short stay in Venice. After making his debut at the Esposizione di Belle Arti di Brera of 1818, he made a long journey through Spain, the Netherlands and France for study purposes.

The set of 13 landscapes shown at the Esposizione di Belle Arti di Brera in 1831 proved a great success with the public and critics alike, not least due to the fame achieved in Paris with works exhibited in the Salons, commissions from Louis Philippe of Orleans and the award of a gold medal in 1830. He returned to Milan in 1832 and devoted his energies to urban views characterised by an interest in the events of contemporary life and an atmospheric form of portrayal in evident competition with Giovanni Migliara. Landscape came to predominate as from 1835 with subjects drawn from the Lombard countryside and lakes. The focus on poor and humble aspects of life formed part of the artist’s fundamental naturalism and coincided with a moralistic approach derived from the novelist Alessandro Manzoni. Crucial importance attaches in the artist’s mature period to his trip to Rome and Naples in 1838–39.

Among his pupils or painters influenced by Canela were Constantino Prinetti and Giovanni Renica.^[2] His son, Giuseppe Canella the Younger (Venice, 1837 - Padoa, 1913), was also a painter.

Works

Boulevard Montmatre, Paris

Among his works are:

Views of Paris and the Boulevards.
Cathedral of Milan.
Harbor at Honfleur.
Basilica of Santa Croce, Florence .
New Street in Venice .
View of a Village—moonlight

Notes

↑ Life dates are from Saur 2000, vol. 2, p. 412.
↑
- Caimi, Antonio (1862). Delle arti del designo e degli artisti nelle provincie di Lombardia dal 1777-1862. Milan, Italy: Presso Luigi di Giacomo Pirola. pp. 96–99.

References

Elena Lissoni, Giuseppe Canella, online catalogue Artgate by Fondazione Cariplo, 2010, CC BY-SA (source for biography).
Bryan, Michael (1886). Robert Edmund Graves, ed. Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical (Volume I: A-K). York St. #4, Covent Garden, London; Original from Fogg Library, Digitized 18 May 2007: George Bell and Sons. pp. page 225.
Saur, K. G., publisher (2000). The Artists of the World: A Bio-bibliographical Index A to Z. Munich: K. G. Saur. ISBN 978-3-598-23975-5.

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Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 10792324 LCCN: nr95019876 ISNI: 0000 0001 2208 7440 ICCU: IT\ICCU\CAGV\017099

Persondata
Name	Canella, Giuseppe
Alternative names	Canella, Giuseppe the Elder
Short description	Italian painter
Date of birth	28 July 1788
Place of birth	Verona
Date of death	11 September 1847
Place of death	Florence

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