Abstract
The chaos incumbent to massive urban renewal projects in the nineteenth century prompted the development of an unusually propitious relationship between cityscape artists and patrons. Italian cityscape artists Canaletto (1697–1768), Giuseppe Canella (1788–1847) and Giuseppe de Nittis (1846–1884) were called upon to harness their abilities to high-ranking patrons, monarchs and official governing bodies—to answer these individuals' search for oeuvre that would transcend its role as documentation and capture the spiritual hope for the bright future to which these urban projects aspired. This article explores the specific manner in which officials utilized the talents of Italian cityscape artists currently residing within their city to assist their effort to justify those vast programs of destruction and reconstruction to which urban metropolises, such as Paris and London, were subjected in order to meet the needs of future generations and, accordingly, solidify the image of the city being reborn.
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