Canaletto is one of the most popular of all Old Master painters. His views of Venice, Rome and London are much celebrated and admired, but he was more than a mere recorder of scenery. In the words of one of his contemporaries, he had the power to paint so that -the eye is deceived and truly believes it is the real thing it sees-. J G Links´s magisterial study was first published in 1982, and immediately became the standard work on the subject, admired both for its comprehensive, meticulous scholarship and