# View of the Villa Cagnola at Gazzada near Varese [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [BELLOTTO, Bernardo]() - Date: 1751-1800 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 100 x 65 cm ## Commentary This view and another \(View of Gazzada near Varese\) in the same museum have recently been restored and we can once again see the crystal transparency of the light. The splendid early masterpieces were painted while the young artist was traveling in Lombardy. They manage to combine poetry with faithful realism in the way they capture the feel of the climate and season. He succeeded in catching the movement of the early fall wind which was pushing the clouds along and drying the washing on the line. He painstakingly and lovingly portrayed the simple colours of the stones, the roof tiles, the clothes people wore, and the way the leaves are just beginning to turn colour. All this makes these paintings perhaps the most heartfelt portraits ever painted of the region. ## Related artworks - [Architectural Capriccio with a Self-Portrait]() - [Capriccio of the Capitol]() - [Capriccio Padovano]() - [Capriccio with the Colosseum]() - [Dresden from the Left Bank of the Elbe, below the Fortifications]() - [Dresden from the Right Bank of the Elbe, above the Augustusbrücke]() - [Dresden, the Frauenkirche and the Rampische Gasse]() - [Dresden, the Ruins of the Pirnaische Vorstadt]() - [Dresden, the Ruins of the Pirnaische Vorstadt]() - [Liechtenstein Garden Palace in Vienna Seen from the East]() - [Liechtenstein Garden Palace in Vienna Seen from the East]() - [New Market Square in Dresden from the Jüdenhof]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()