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Artist: Francesco Guardi (Italian 1712-1793)

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Francesco Guardi, Caprice Fine Art Reproduction Oil Painting
Caprice
Francesco Guardi, Caprice II Fine Art Reproduction Oil Painting
Caprice II
Francesco Guardi, The Departure of Bucentaur for the Lido Fine Art Reproduction Oil Painting
The Departure of Bucentaur for the Lido
Francesco Guardi, View of the Island of San Pedro di Castello Fine Art Reproduction Oil Painting
View of the Island of San Pedro di Castello
Francesco Guardi, The Feast of the Ascension in St Mark's Square Fine Art Reproduction Oil Painting
The Feast of the Ascension in St Mark's Square
Francesco Guardi, View of the Grand Canal Fine Art Reproduction Oil Painting
View of the Grand Canal
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Guardi, Francesco
1712-1793

Guardi, Francesco Biography

Venetian painter, the best-known member of a family of artists. He is now famous for his views of Venice, indeed next to Canaletto he is the most celebrated view-painter of the 18th century.

In the 1750s, Francesco Guardi began to paint vedute (views, usually including architectural elements) in the manner of his great predecessor Canaletto. Guardi retained the scenic precision of the architectural canvases of Canaletto, but introduced a liveliness of line and color and a heightened mood of fantasy. The results, as in the dazzling Piazza San Marco Decorated for the Feast of the Ascension (1775?, Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon), were unsurpassed romantic evocations of Venice. With vivid, sketchy brushstrokes, Guardi peopled his cityscapes with grandiose processions and brightly costumed revelers, bathed in a shimmering, watery light presaging the effects achieved by the 19th-century impressionists.

Francesco Guardi was enormously prolific and his artwork is in many public collections in Italy, Britain and elsewhere.

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