Giovanni Antonio Canal

Italian painter of landscapes (1697–1768)
Person human Q182664
Giovanni Antonio Canal
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Facts

31 properties
Instance of
human
Sex or gender
male[24]
Date of birth
October 7, 1697, October 17, 1697, October 18, 1697, 1697[10][11][12]
Date of death
April 19, 1758, April 10, 1768, April 19, 1768, April 20, 1768, 1768[13][14][15][16]
Place of birth
Venice
Place of death
Venice
Country of citizenship
Republic of Venice[18]
Field of work
painting[19]
Languages spoken, written or signed
Italian
Birth name
Giovanni Antonio Canal
Copyright status as a creator
copyrights on works have expired
Depicted by
Canaletto in England. A Venetian Artist Abroad, 1746-1755, Canaletto: Rome, Londres, Venise : le triomphe de la lumière
Family name
Canal[28]
Has works in the collection
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Städel Museum, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Art Institute of Chicago, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Auckland Art Gallery, Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Finnish National Gallery, J. Paul Getty Museum, Tate, National Gallery of Victoria, National Gallery of Art, Nationalmuseum, National Gallery of Canada, Museo del Prado, ASR historic collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rijksmuseum, Galleria nazionale di Parma, National Museum Cardiff, Ricardo Brennand Institute, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica di Palazzo Corsini, Royal Museums Greenwich, Pomurje Museum Murska Sobota, National Galleries Scotland, Uffizi Gallery, National Gallery, Gallerie dell'Accademia, Museum of 18th-century Venice, Dulwich Picture Gallery, Woburn Abbey, Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Birmingham Museum of Art, Dallas Museum of Art, Albertina, Walters Art Museum, Musée des beaux-arts de Marseille, Hermitage Museum, Pinacoteca di Brera, Gemäldegalerie Berlin, Accademia Carrara, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Wallraf–Richartz Museum, Arundel Castle, Bavarian State Painting Collections, Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Worcester Art Museum, Bowes Museum, London Museum, Ca' Rezzonico, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Musée Jacquemart-André, Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Detroit Institute of Arts, Wallace Collection, San Diego Museum of Art, Museo Correr, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg, Goodwood House, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Musée Cognacq-Jay, Holkham Hall, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Kimbell Art Museum, Toledo Museum of Art, Norton Simon Museum, Saint Louis Art Museum, National Museum of Fine Arts of Cuba, Museum of Grenoble, Sir John Soane's Museum, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, Columbia Museum of Art, Villa Necchi Campiglio, National Art Museum of Azerbaijan, Wikidata item, Harvard Art Museums, Museo d'Arte Antica, Pinacoteca del Castello Sforzesco, El Paso Museum of Art, Farnborough Hall, Yale Center for British Art, National Trust, The Lobkowicz Collections, Statens Museum for Kunst, Dayton Art Institute, Barnes Foundation, Fitzwilliam Museum, Compton Verney Art Gallery, Tokyo Fuji Art Museum, Galleria Borghese, Ferens Art Gallery, Manchester Art Gallery, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Cincinnati Art Museum, Moravian Gallery in Brno, Cleveland Museum of Art, Collection Bemberg, National Gallery of Ireland, Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon, Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, North Carolina Museum of Art, Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, National Museum of Fine Arts, Argentina, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Ackland Art Museum, Musée d'art et d'histoire de Narbonne, Fogg Museum, Führermuseum, Bowhill House, Musée d'art et d'archéologie du Périgord, Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck, Ashmolean Museum, Burrell Collection, Victoria and Albert Museum, Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Pollok House, Brighton Museum & Art Gallery, Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, Beecroft Art Gallery, Guildhall Art Gallery, Holburne Museum, Nantes Museum of Arts, Shipley Art Gallery, Maidstone Museum and Bentlif Art Gallery, paintings collection of Musée des beaux-arts de Chartres, Chrysler Museum of Art, Leeds Art Gallery, Print Collection, Victoria Gallery & Museum, Musea Brugge, Temple Newsam, Cannon Hall, Hatchlands Park, Judges' Lodgings, Thirlestane Castle, Glasgow Museums Resource Centre, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Kunsthaus Zürich, Gothenburg Museum of Art, private collection, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Pinacoteca Querini Stampalia, Musée des beaux-arts de Nîmes, Kupferstichkabinett Berlin, Bassano Civic Museum, Royal Collection
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Movement
Rococo[25]
On focus list of Wikimedia project
WikiProject PCC Wikidata Pilot/Frick Art Reference Library, Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4, WikiProject New York Public Library
Topic has template
Template:Canaletto
🏷️ Also known as
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🔖 Identifiers · 178
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Art Gallery of South Australia creator ID
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Art Renewal Center artist ID
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Art UK artist ID
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Artcyclopedia artist ID
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Article ID in the Lithuanian Universal Encyclopedia Online
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Artist ID of the Department of Prints and Drawings of the Louvre
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AskArt person ID
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Athenaeum person ID
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Auckland Art Gallery artist ID
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Australian Prints + Printmaking artist ID
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BAnQ authority ID
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Beaux-Arts ID
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Benezit ID
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Bibliothèque nationale de France ID
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Boijmans artist ID
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Bridgeman artist ID
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British Museum person or institution ID
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Brockhaus Enzyklopädie online ID
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CONOR.SR ID
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Canadiana Name Authority ID
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Cyprus University of Technology ID
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DFK Paris person ID
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Deutsche Biographie (GND) ID
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Digital portrait index person (GND) ID
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DigitaltMuseum ID
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Discogs artist ID
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ELNET ID
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Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
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FAST ID
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Freebase ID
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Frick Art Research Library Artist File ID
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Geni profile ID
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Google Arts & Culture entity ID
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Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)
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Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID
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Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017)
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Grove Art Online ID
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Hill Museum & Manuscript Library ID
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ISFDB author ID
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IdRef ID
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Invaluable.com person ID
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Isidore scholar ID
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J. Paul Getty Museum agent ID
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J9U entity ID
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Japan Search name ID
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KSW person ID
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Kalliope-Verbund (GND) ID
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Kallías ID
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Kunstindeks Danmark Artist ID
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LBT person ID
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Lebanese National Library ID
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Levadia Library ID
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Lex ID
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Libraries Australia ID
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LombardiaBeniCulturali artwork author ID
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Lur Encyclopedic Dictionary ID
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MMB ID
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Met Constituent ID
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Minneapolis Institute of Art constituent ID
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Municipal Library of Trikala ID
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Museo Galileo authority ID
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Museo del Prado artist ID
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Museum-digital person/organization ID
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NDL Authority ID
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NL CR AUT ID
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NLA Trove people ID
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NNDB people ID
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NSK (VIAF) ID
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NUKAT ID
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National Gallery of Art artist ID
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National Gallery of Canada artist ID
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National Gallery of Victoria artist ID
876
National Library of Brazil ID
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National Library of Greece ID
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National Library of Iceland ID
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National Library of Ireland ID
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National Library of Israel ID (old)
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National Library of Latvia ID
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National Library of Lithuania ID
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National Library of Poland MMS ID
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National Library of Portugal ID
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National Library of Russia ID
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National Library of Spain SpMaBN ID
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National Virtual Library of India ID
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Nationale Thesaurus voor Auteursnamen ID
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Nationalmuseum Sweden ID
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Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art person ID
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Norwegian National Museum producer ID
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Numista engraver or designer ID
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Obálky knih ID
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Online PWN Encyclopedia ID
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Open Library ID
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Open Plaques subject ID
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OpenMLOL author ID
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Oxford Reference overview ID
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PMB – Personen der Moderne Basis person ID
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PUG authority ID
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Parsifal cluster ID
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Philadelphia Museum of Art entity ID
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Pinakothek artist ID
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Pontificia Università della Santa Croce ID
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Proleksis enciklopedija ID
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Pushkin Museum artist ID
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RA Collections ID
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RKDartists ID
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Rijksmuseum Research Library authority ID
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Royal Academy ID
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SBN author ID
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SEARCH on line catalogue ID
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SELIBR ID
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SHARE Catalogue author ID
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SNAC ARK ID
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SVKKL authority ID
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Saint Louis Art Museum person ID
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Six Degrees of Francis Bacon ID
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Smithsonian American Art Museum person/institution ID
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Städel Museum artist ID
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Svenska Institutet i Rom ID
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Tate artist ID
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Te Papa agent ID
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The Literary Encyclopedia person ID
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Thyssen-Bornemisza artist ID
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Treccani's Biographical Dictionary of Italian People ID
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Treccani's Enciclopedia Italiana ID
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Union List of Artist Names ID
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Unione Romana Biblioteche Scientifiche ID
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University of Barcelona authority ID
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University of Barcelona authority ID (former scheme)
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Vatican Library ID (former scheme)
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Vatican Library VcBA ID
495/4216
Vienna History Wiki ID
38164
Web Gallery of Art artist ID
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Web umenia creator ID
1345315
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WikiArt ID
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WorldCat Entities ID
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YCBA agent ID
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Summary

Giovanni Antonio Canal was born on October 7, 1697[1], in Venice[2]. He died on April 19, 1758[3], in Venice[4]. He worked as a painter[5], etcher[6], graphic artist[7], draftsperson[8], and visual artist[9].

FAQs

Where was Giovanni Antonio Canal born?

Giovanni Antonio Canal's place of birth was Venice[2].

Where did Giovanni Antonio Canal die?

Giovanni Antonio Canal died in Venice[4].

Who were Giovanni Antonio Canal's parents?

Giovanni Antonio Canal's father was Bernardo Canal[17].

What did Giovanni Antonio Canal do for work?

Giovanni Antonio Canal worked as a painter[5], etcher[6], graphic artist[7], draftsperson[8], and visual artist[9].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . Union List of Artist Names. Retrieved . getty.edu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . Union List of Artist Names. Retrieved . getty.edu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [24] ↑ . artist list of the National Museum of Sweden. Retrieved . getty.edu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [17] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [5] ↑ . The Fine Art Archive. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [6] ↑ . Union List of Artist Names. wikidata.org.
  9. [7] ↑ . The Fine Art Archive. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [8] ↑ . Union List of Artist Names. wikidata.org.
  11. [9] ↑ . museabrugge.be. Retrieved . museabrugge.be. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [25] ↑ . collections.vam.ac.uk. collections.vam.ac.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [26] ↑ . Union List of Artist Names. getty.edu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [27] ↑ . Union List of Artist Names. getty.edu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [1] ↑ . The Fine Art Archive. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  16. [10] ↑ . Artists of the World Online. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  17. [11] ↑ . Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  18. [12] ↑ . data.bibliotheken.nl. Retrieved . museabrugge.be. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [3] ↑ . Integrated Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  20. [13] ↑ . Grove Art Online. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  21. [14] ↑ . RKDartists. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  22. [15] ↑ . BnF authorities. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  23. [16] ↑ . data.bibliotheken.nl. Retrieved . museabrugge.be. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  24. [28] ↑ . Union List of Artist Names. wikidata.org.
  25. [29] ↑ . Union List of Artist Names. getty.edu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  26. [30] ↑ . artist list of the National Museum of Sweden. getty.edu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  27. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  29. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  30. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  31. [31] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  32. [32] ↑ . RKDartists. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  33. [33] ↑ . RKDartists. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  34. [34] ↑ . RKDartists. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  35. [35] ↑ . RKDartists. wikidata.org.
  36. [36] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  37. [37] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  38. [38] ↑ . wikidata.org.

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  1. 23d ago · OKA bot bot · 2026-10-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Name → —
    "Changed [nb] labels, descriptions, aliases and claims: other names, source for place of birth, source for place of death, source for date of death from Store norske leksikon ([[Wikidata:Requests fo"
  2. 5w ago · Xavier Numista · 2026-09-28 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Numista engraver or designer ID → 5903
    "Created claim: Numista engraver or designer ID: 5903, batch #279031"
  3. 6w ago · Trivialist · 2026-09-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    HAND ID → 2875-FBDB-BDDF-3CB0-B40A
    Has works in the collection → Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Städel Museum, Minneapolis Institute of Art +151
    "Created claim: HAND ID: 2875-FBDB-BDDF-3CB0-B40A, batch #275136"
  4. 10w ago · Oursana · 2026-08-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Depicted by → Canaletto in England. A Venetian Artist Abroad, 1746-1755, Canaletto: Rome, Londres, Venise : le triomphe de la lumière
    "Created claim: Depicted by: Canaletto: Rome, Londres, Venise : le triomphe de la lumière"
  5. 17w ago · Hannolans · 2026-07-07 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Has works in the collection → Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Städel Museum, Minneapolis Institute of Art +151
    "Created claim: Has works in the collection: Bassano Civic Museum, Add works in collection based on a work"
  6. 18w ago · Printstream · 2026-07-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Digital portrait index person (GND) ID → 118638203
    "Created claim: Digital portrait index person (GND) ID: 118638203, #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1783130387391"
  7. 18w ago · Printstream · 2026-07-01 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    KSW person ID → 81874
    "Created claim: KSW person ID: 81874, #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1782930557898"
  8. 19w ago · Printstream · 2026-06-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    FES digital collections entity ID → 393659
    "Created claim: FES digital collections entity ID: 393659, #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1782398664614"
  9. 19w ago · KrBot bot · 2026-06-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Catalogue raisonné → L'opera completa del Canaletto, Canaletto: Giovanni Antonio Canal, 1697–1768
    "Changed claim: Catalogue raisonné: L'opera completa del Canaletto, разрешение перенаправления / resolving redirect L'opera completa del Canaletto → L'opera completa del Canaletto ([[:toollabs:editgrou"
  10. 20w ago · Hannolans · 2026-06-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Has works in the collection → Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Städel Museum, Minneapolis Institute of Art +151
    "Created claim: Has works in the collection: Kupferstichkabinett Berlin, Add works in collection based on a work"
  11. 20w ago · Bargioni · 2026-06-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Catalogue raisonné → L'opera completa del Canaletto, Canaletto: Giovanni Antonio Canal, 1697–1768
    "Changed the item: QuickStatements 3.0 batch #37018: add P1810 to P12458"
  12. 20w ago · Oursana · 2026-06-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Catalogue raisonné → L'opera completa del Canaletto, Canaletto: Giovanni Antonio Canal, 1697–1768
    "Removed claim: Catalogue raisonné: Canaletto: Giovanni Antonio Canal, 1697–1768"
  13. 21w ago · Oursana · 2026-06-15 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Catalogue raisonné → L'opera completa del Canaletto, Canaletto: Giovanni Antonio Canal, 1697–1768
    "Created claim: Catalogue raisonné: L'opera completa del Canaletto"
  14. 21w ago · Sj1mor · 2026-06-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Plaque image → ANTONIO CANAL CALLED CANALETTO (1697-1768) Venetian Painter , ANTONIO GIOVANNI CANALETTO 1697-1768 Artist worked from a st
    "Created claim: Plaque image: ANTONIO CANAL CALLED CANALETTO (1697-1768) Venetian Painter Lived here.jpg"
  15. 21w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    SVKKL authority ID → 0455001-Canaletto-16971768
    "Created claim: SVKKL authority ID: 0455001-Canaletto-16971768, batch #259493"
  16. 22w ago · MariuszRokin · 2026-06-07 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Parsifal cluster ID → 258194, 420084
    "Created claim: Parsifal cluster ID: 420084, batch #259387"
  17. 25w ago · Epìdosis · 2026-05-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    "Changed the item: QuickStatements 3.0 batch #30846: match CERL IDs on the basis of GND (4)"
  18. 26w ago · Bargioni · 2026-05-07 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    "Changed the item: QuickStatements 3.0 batch #30465: add P1810 to P5739 1/3"
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