Bernardo Bellotto's work sometimes has been mistaken for that of his famous uncle Canaletto; the native Venetian spent most of his life outside Italy and signed his works abroad *de Canaletto.* Bellotto employed cooler colors than Canaletto, however, and showed a stronger feeling for landscape and sky in his *vedute,* or views. Inducted into the Venetian painters' guild at the early age of sevente
