Ippolito Caffi - Snow and Fog on the Grand Canal - WGA03744

Ippolito Caffi (1809–1866) was an Italian painter of architectural subjects and seascapes or urban

vedute A ''veduta'' (; : ''vedute'') is a highly detailed, usually large-scale painting or, more often, print of a cityscape or some other vista. The painters of ''vedute'' are referred to as ''vedutisti''. Origins This genre of landscape originated ...

Biography

He was born at

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. His first works were produced at the Academy of Fine Arts of

Venice Venice ( ; ; , formerly ) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto Regions of Italy, region. It is built on a group of 118 islands that are separated by expanses of open water and by canals; portions of the city are li ...

. By 1830, he had won awards for his vedute at the academy. He subsequently moved to Rome, made some reputation by his treatise on perspective, as well as by his investigations on Roman archaeology. In 1843 he visited Greece and the East (Athens, Constantinople, Syria, Egypt, and Malta). The first work of his that created a sensation was ''Carnival at Venice''. This was exhibited at Paris in 1846, and was admired for its brilliant effects of light. Other works are his ''Panorama of Rome from Monte Mario'', ''Isthmus of Suez'', and ''Close of the Carnival at Rome''. He joined revolutionary movements in

in 1848, and had to retire into Piedmont. His aim of commemorating in paint the first Italian naval engagement was frustrated when the ''Re d' Italia'', on which he travelled, was destroyed on 20 July 1866 by the Austro-Venetian fleet at the battle of Lissa, drowning him along with his comrades. In 2005–2006, an exhibition on Ippolito Caffi was held in his native Belluno. Mostra ''Caffi, Luci di Mediterraneo''

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1809 births 1866 deaths People from Belluno 19th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Painters from Venice Italian vedutisti 19th-century Italian male artists Painters from the Austrian Empire {{Italy-painter-19thC-stub