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Long-lost Canaletto painting found hanging in English home
UPI ^ | August 18, 2021 | ByBen Hooper

Posted on 08/19/2021 8:26:17 AM PDT by Red Badger

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To: lee martell

It’s Venice. All the buildings are built on marshy islands........................


21 posted on 08/19/2021 8:53:04 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Hiddigeigei
Yes...............
22 posted on 08/19/2021 8:55:21 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

That’s true.


23 posted on 08/19/2021 8:57:04 AM PDT by lee martell
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To: Red Badger

meh


24 posted on 08/19/2021 8:57:06 AM PDT by nuconvert ( Warning: Accused of being a radical militarist. Approach with caution.)
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To: etabeta

Fine Art Ping


25 posted on 08/19/2021 8:58:36 AM PDT by left that other site (If you do not stand firm in your faith, you will not stand at all. (Isaiah 7:9))
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To: Red Badger

lol! That’s the moment when you STOP “straightening up”!
Just drop the Kleenex and calmly walk away looking intently into the next gallery. The Security Guard is gabbing on his Bluetooth. He ‘didn’t see nothin’”


26 posted on 08/19/2021 9:04:23 AM PDT by lee martell
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To: Red Badger

Rick would have gave her $50 for it.

Bigger paintings bring more? So that’s why my original DaVinci wallet sized Mona Lisa isn’t worth anything.

Some art. Where’s the original Dale Earnhardt Sr. on black velvet?


27 posted on 08/19/2021 9:06:06 AM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult
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To: BenLurkin

Right out of Lovejoy Mysteries.


28 posted on 08/19/2021 9:06:30 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack
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To: Larry Lucido

LOL!


29 posted on 08/19/2021 9:07:20 AM PDT by proud American in Canada ("Fear is a reaction; courage is a decision." Winston Churchill)
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To: Red Badger

It’s gorgeous and incredibly detailed. I agree with you, it’s worth a lot more than $200K.


30 posted on 08/19/2021 9:08:17 AM PDT by proud American in Canada ("Fear is a reaction; courage is a decision." Winston Churchill)
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To: Red Badger

“Giovanni Antonio Canal (18 October 1697 – 19 April 1768),[1] commonly known as Canaletto (Italian: [kanaˈletto][2]), was an Italian painter from the Republic of Venice, considered important member of the 18th-century Venetian school. “

Good golly...the guy was a prolific painter! Of course, you couldn’t find a more beautiful place than Venice to ply your trade.


31 posted on 08/19/2021 9:10:40 AM PDT by moovova (Yo GOP....we won't forget.)
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To: Red Badger
Take that!


32 posted on 08/19/2021 9:15:19 AM PDT by moovova (Yo GOP....we won't forget.)
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To: Red Badger

True.

But sometimes auction houses deliberately keep estimates low. I hope the consignor received a fair commission rate.


33 posted on 08/19/2021 9:21:03 AM PDT by warsaw44
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To: lee martell

It’s on a canal.


34 posted on 08/19/2021 9:23:39 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Trump will be sworn in under a shower of confetti made from the tattered remains of the Rat Party.)
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To: lee martell

Great eye. I think your point is correct, but I think he captured the scene accurately nonetheless. If you look closely at this similarly positioned modern photo, the porticos of the building are not level with each other today.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/pe_ha45/46024893504


35 posted on 08/19/2021 9:25:11 AM PDT by babble-on
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To: Red Badger; mairdie
I see a little Canaletto on the wall, scaramouche, scaramouche...

36 posted on 08/19/2021 9:52:14 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SunkenCiv

I’m just a poor boy from a poor family...................


37 posted on 08/19/2021 9:58:24 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

$200,000 is an affordable price......


38 posted on 08/19/2021 10:21:10 AM PDT by caver
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To: Larry Lucido

3 tacos on a plate.


39 posted on 08/19/2021 10:56:03 AM PDT by 353FMG
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To: left that other site

Thanks, LTOS! It must be a late work of Canaletto as it lacks the imagination, the freshness and vitality of his earlier work.


40 posted on 08/19/2021 1:18:44 PM PDT by etabeta
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