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Canaletto and Guardi, the two masters of Venice

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Antonio Canal, also known as Canaletto, is the great promoter of the "veduta", a genre of landscape painting that takes the urban context as a subject in itself. The Musée Maillol in Paris is celebrating the Venetian master with a major show. Among his talented pupils was Francesco Guardi, who developed his own idiosyncratic style. Another exhibition at Musée Jacquemart-André shows the relationship between these two masters of Venice.

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