Canaletto and Guardi
Views of Venice at the Wallace Collection
Rizzoli · Print & ebook · May 26, 2026
A celebration of the beauty of Venice that Wallace Collection's paintings convey and an enjoyable and informative complement to viewing the paintings in the flesh.
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- Who it’s for
- Restored Venetian views meet essays on artistic process, picture dating, and authorship.
- Themes
- Venetian painting, Art conservation and restoration, Artists’ creative processes
- Genres
- Artist Monographs, Permanent Collections, Baroque & Rococo Art History
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A celebration of the beauty of Venice that Wallace Collection's paintings convey and an enjoyable and informative complement to viewing the paintings in the flesh. Among the renowned Old Master paintings at the Wallace Collection in London is an important group of 27 eighteenth-century views of Venice, known as vedute, by Canaletto and his followers, including Francesco Guardi.
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They hang together in a dedicated gallery known as the Canaletto Room, but the majority had not been cleaned since the nineteenth century and their original beauty was obscured by multiple layers of discoloured varnish.The paintings have now been restored, following a recent multi-year conservation and research project, and this book presents them in their renewed splendour. It features essays and commentaries by Charles Beddington, the global expert on vedute, and by Wallace Collection curator Lelia Packer, which provide fresh insights into the artists’ creative processes, the dating of pictures and their authorship. Canaletto and Guardi is a gorgeous celebration of the beauty of Venice that these paintings convey.
The Canaletto Room
Restored Venetian views meet essays on artistic process, picture dating, and authorship.
Come here for
- Eighteenth-century views of Venice by Canaletto and his followers, including Guardi
- Paintings restored after layers of discoloured varnish obscured their original beauty
Expect
- Essays and commentaries on artists’ creative processes
- Fresh insights into picture dating and authorship
Where it sits
| Baroque & Rococo Art History | 47% |
|---|---|
| Permanent Collections | 43% |
| Artist Monographs | 32% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Exhibitions & Catalogs
- Baroque & Rococo Art History
- Studying Artists
- Authors
- Lelia Packer, Charles Beddington
- Publisher
- Rizzoli
- Published
- May 26, 2026
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Venetian painting · Art conservation and restoration · Artists’ creative processes
- Reading lane
- Exhibitions & Catalogs