Gabriele Bella - Artist Info

About Gabriele Bella

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    Gabriel Bella is best known for his lively and colourful depictions of Venice and its civil and religious festivities. His fame is linked above all to the extraordinary collection of sixty-seven of his paintings that belonged to the intellectual Andrea Querini (1710–1795), now preserved at the Fondazione Querini-Stampalia in Venice (M. Dazzi, E. Merkel, Catalogo della Pinacoteca della Fondazione scientifica Querini Stampalia, Vicenza, 1979, pp. 97-102).

    These works were commissioned around 1779 to follow up fourteen canvases with interior scenes that had been produced a few years earlier by Pietro Longhi. Bella was comissioned to illustrate the important feasts and events of the Venetian Republic.

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