Giuseppe Canella Elder
Giuseppe Canella, also referred to as Giuseppe Canella the Elder, was an Italian painter. Initially trained by his father Giovanni, an architect, fresco painter, and set designer, Giuseppe Canella started out producing stage sets and decorating stately homes in Verona and Mantua. The set of 13 landscapes shown during his debut, at Expositions at the Brera in 1831, proved a great success with the public and critics alike, not least due to the fame achieved in Paris with works exhibited in the Salons, commissions from Louis Philippe of Orléans, and the award of a gold medal in 1830. He returned to Milan in 1832 and devoted his energies to urban views characterized by an interest in the events of contemporary life and an atmospheric form of portrayal in evident competition with Giovanni Migliara.
Landscape came to predominate from 1835 with subjects drawn from the Lombard countryside and lakes. The focus on poor and humble aspects of life formed part of the artist’s fundamental naturalism and coincided with a moralistic approach derived from the novelist Alessandro Manzoni. Crucial importance is attached in the artist’s mature period to his trip to Rome and Naples in 1838 and 1839. Towards the end of his life, he became a teacher at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Venice. He quickly gained a reputation as a painter of vedute, factually accurate views, painting townscapes with great precision in the style of Guardi or Carlevaris.
Today's work is a good example of his Venice period. Chioggia is a town situated on a small island at the southern entrance to the Lagoon of Venice, about 25 kilometers (16 miles) south of Venice.
P.S. Venice is without doubt one of the most beautiful cities in the world! Countless artists visited La Serenissima and portrayed her, among them Claude Monet! <3