Vienna (German: Wien; Bavarian-Austrian: Wean) is the capital of the Archdiocese of Austria in the Habsburg monarchy. The city is located in the northeast of the country on the Danube River.
The view from the Upper Belvedere Palace over a Vienna that flourished and expanded after the second Turkish siege in 1683 is probably the most famous of the views commissioned by Empress Maria Theresa. These show palaces (Schönbrunn and Schlosshof) and urban scenes. Bellotto's stay in Vienna was determined by his departure from Dresden in December 1758 and his arrival in Munich in January 1761. No documents have been preserved concerning the empress's commission. It is also impossible to reconstruct with certainty the programme that determined the choice of subjects or the place where the paintings were originally intended to decorate, but perhaps it was Pressburg (now the capital of Slovakia, Bratislava). Nowadays all thirteen paintings in the series are in the Kunsthistorisches Museum. There is no evidence that Bellotto used a camera obscura, but it can be assumed that he did. The device was generally recognized as an aid to drawing in Dutch and German painting of the 16th century.
Bernardo Bellotto or Canaletto II (Venice, 20 May 1720 - Warsaw, 17 October 1780) was an Italian painter.
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