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This is the catalog of an exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York from October 30, 1989 to January 21, 1990. It contains 127 plates of Canaletto's artwork, almost all in color, as well as an appendix that contains 5 documents in the artist's handwriting. Also included is an essay by the foremost expert on Canaletto, J. G. Links, who helped organize this exhibition, entitled Canaletto: A Biographical Sketch . Four other essays, Canaletto as Artist of the Urban Scene by Michael Levey; The Taste for Canaletto by Francis Haskell; Fantasy and Reality in Canaletto's Drawings by Alessandro Bettagno; and, The Development of Canaletto's Painting Technique by Viola Pemberton-Pigott, all add insight into this great master and his art.