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Giovanni Antonio Canal (28 October 1697 – 19 April 1768) better known as Canaletto (Italian: [kanaˈletto]), was a Venetian painter of landscapes, or vedute, of Venice. He was also an important printmaker in etching.
He was born in Venice as the son of the painter Bernardo Canal, hence his mononym Canaletto ("little Canal"), and Artemisia Barbieri. Bernardo Bellotto was his nephew and pupil. Canaletto served his apprenticeship with his father and his brother. He began in his father's occupation, that of a theatrical scene painter. Canaletto was inspired by the Roman vedutista Giovanni Paolo Pannini, and started painting the daily life of the city and its people.
After returning from Rome in 1719, he began painting in his topographical style. His first known signed and dated work is Architectural Capriccio (1723, Milan, in a private collection). Studying with the older Luca Carlevarijs, a moderately-talented painter of urban cityscapes, he rapidly became his master's equal.
In 1725, the painter Alessandro Marchesini, who was also the buyer for the Lucchese art collector Stefano Conti had inquired about buying two more 'views of Venice', when the agent informed him to consider instead the work of "Antonio Canale... it is like Carlevaris, but you can see the sun shining in it."
I gotta know if you been foolin' 'round
What makes you think I'm gonna talk about it?
Maybe you'll tell me if you're safe and sound
Just take a look, girl, and don't you doubt it
You had me worried, I walked the floors overnight and
cried for you
So wipe your eyes, you know I'm yours, and all I
promised you was true, girl
I'll never let you be anybody's baby
Can't you see I love you?
Now and eternally, you're meant to be the only for me
I ask you, how could I let you be anybody's baby
'Cause mentally, to see you
Runnin' away to be anybody's baby is killing me
D'you really think you'd get away with that?
Now take it easy, there's nothin' to it
My girlfriend said she saw you where it's at
Why don't we sit down, talk it through it?
I'm tired of waitin' for your safe return, when I don't
know where you've been
I know I've hurt you, let's make a turn, and I'll be
happy to begin, girl
I'll never let you be anybody's baby
Can't you see I love you?
Then don't ever let me see you with anybody else but me
(anybody)
'Cause people talk and gossip's growin'
You've been cheatin' - You're mistreatin'
What we have got, and I'll be goin' in a frenzy, if you
can't see
You'd better start to trust in me more than in
everything you hear
You oughta know what's drivin' me - the love I feel
when you are near, so
I'll never let you be anybody's baby
It's you for me forever
Don't ever let me see you with anybody else but me
I wonder, how could I let you be anybody's baby
Can't you see I want you?