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Canaletto and Bellotto: painters of the ideal

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By Michael Prodger 
| Engelsberg Ideas
In the history of Venetian art there is no shortage of family connections. Jacopo Bellini had two sons who were both painters of the first rank – Gentile and Giovanni – and a son-in-law who was every bit as distinguished, Andrea Mantegna. Marietta Robusti was a gifted portraitist trained by her father Tintoretto. Giovanni Battista Tiepolo had two artist sons – Giovanni Domenico and Lorenzo – and painter brothers-in-law, too, Francesco and Giovanni Antonio Guardi.
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Jacques-Louis David at the Louvre

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By Michael Prodger 
| The Critic Magazine (UK)
This article is taken from the February 2026 issue of The Critic. To get the full magazine why not subscribe? Get five issues for just £25. Few artists have been as politically engaged as Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825) and even fewer have veered so startlingly in their convictions.
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Henri Rousseau's wild dreams

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By Michael Prodger 
| Engelsberg Ideas
‘Here one evening in the year 1908 unrolled the pageantry of the first and last banquet offered by his admirers to the painter Henri Rousseau called the Douanier.’ The carefully sonorous words are those of the poet André Salmon, one of the artists and writers who was present that night at Le Bateau-Lavoir, the shabby, subdivided former piano factory towards the top of the hill of Montmartre that was home to Picasso.
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