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‖ veduta|veˈduta| Pl. vedute; vedutas. [a. It. veduta a view, f. vedere to see.] A realistic, detailed picture of a town scene with buildings of interest, esp. one belonging to the genre represented by eighteenth-century Italian artists such as Canaletto, Guardi, and Piranesi; veduta ideata (pl. vedute ideate), a picture in this style but showing an imaginary scene, esp. one by Pannini.
1906Studio (Special Summer No.) a. p. iii, Rudolf [von Alt] was the leader of the Viennese ‘Veduta’ painting, the true biographer of Vienna. 1934Burlington Mag. Aug. 71/2 Topographical exactitude and the precision of linear perspective—the two essential elements of an ideal veduta. 1944Ibid. Sept. 216/2 Little vedutas of the Swedish countryside. 1959Listener 25 June 1118/1 Such vedute ideate were..a regular branch of Italian landscape painting since the latter part of the seventeenth century. 1961Guardian 16 Nov. 7/7 The boom in Venetian vedute by Guardi in 1948. 1967G. Sims Last Best Friend xix. 180 There was an eighteenth-century Venetian Veduta painting. 1970Oxf. Compan. Art 199/1 Canaletto..enlarged his repertory to include subjects from the Venetian mainland..and vedute ideate or imaginary landscapes. 1978New York 3 Apr. 64/2 Instead it dwells on the fresh spring light and dank shade falling over ordinary buildings, with a sparseness, accuracy, and austere gaiety that suggest Canaletto's vedute of London. Hence veduˈtista (pl. -i, -e), a painter of vedute.
1962R. G. Haggar Dict. Art Terms 355/1 The most notable vedutisti..were Pannini and Piranesi..and Canaletto and Guardi. 1967C. Rougvie When Johnny Died ii. 55 Vedute..are..paintings of Venice..both Canaletto and Guardi were vedutiste (sic). |