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Gabriele Bella BIOGRAPHY
1730 Venice, Italy - 1799. Known for: Representation of feasts, festivals, and celebrations in a Canalettian style.
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... Read full biography
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... Read full biography
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... Read full biography
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. The artist worked for the Querinis for a... Read full biography
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. The artist worked for the Querinis for a long time and in 1791, paintings directly commissioned by that family were added to those inherited from Girolamo Ascanio Giustini... Read full biography
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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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