vedute

Vanvitelli's earliest views (vedute, the Italian word for them, has long been in use in English but it holds no extra meaning) were executed in Rome in the early 1680s and within a decade or so, certain constants in perspective and composition had evolved.

Evening Standard - Home 2008

It also benefits from the works of minor artists, who helped to shape the Venetian vedute tradition without establishing mastery.

Waning Genius in Venice Bruce Anderson 2010

We revered his vedute, the dramatic views of Rome with their brilliant manipulations of space and scale; we adored his carceri, the imaginary prisons where swinging ropes and bridges to nowhere crisscrossed soaring stone chambers in ominous, pre - "Caligari" gloom.

Flights of Fancy, Centuries Apart Ada Louise Huxtable 2007

I've no doubt that the way that beauty surrounds a person in Venice is what caused "view painters" (the vedute school) like Canaletto and Guardi to break the bounds of perspective and picture frame to invent and define the new painting idiom.

Extreme Panoramic Photograph of Piazza San Marco 2004

I've no doubt that the way that beauty surrounds a person in Venice is what caused "view painters" (the vedute school) like Canaletto and Guardi to break the bounds of perspective and picture frame to invent and define the new painting idiom.

Veniceblog: 2004

Born in Venice in 1720, he moved to Rome in his early twenties and turned to the production of souvenir views, or vedute, of the city.

The Imaginary Builder Updike, John 2001

Impressive in its variety, the gamut of subject matter will include figures studies, historical and mythological narratives, landscapes, vedute, botanical drawings, motifs copied from or inspired by classical antiquity, and designs for painted compositions.

NYC.com's Exclusive New York City Event Calendar : Art 2010

That is why this taste for vedute - view paintings - had grown up in the first place.

The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2010

His couple of dozen Canaletto vedute still hang in Woburn Abbey.

The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2010