Artist: Francesco Guardi (1712 - 1793)
Nationality: Italian
Movement: Venetian School
Media: Painting
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Biography:
Francesco Guardi’s use of color and lighting in his paintings suggest that Canaletto taught him his techniques. Guardi painted landscapes, architecture, and interiors in large dimensions. A forerunner of Turner, he abandoned the strict calculations of Canaletto’s work and painted in a more impressionistic style. He also collaborated with his brother Giovanni on several religious pieces.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (100)
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Francesco Guardi The Doge of Venice Receiving Ambassadors in the Sala dei Collegio, after the painting by Francesco Guardi in the Louvre Pen and brown ink and wash over traces of graphite on laid paper 19th century
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Fantastic Landscape Francesco Guardi (Italian, Venetian, 1712-1793)Oil on canvas; Irregular, 61 1/4 x 74 1/2
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Fantastic Landscape Francesco Guardi (Italian, Venetian, 1712-1793)Oil on canvas; Irregular, 61 1/4 x 74 1/2
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Fantastic Landscape, probably 1760s Francesco Guardi (Italian, Venetian, 1712-1793)Oil on canvas; Irregular, 61 1/4 x
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The Grand Canal above the Rialto Francesco Guardi (Italian, Venetian, 1712-1793)Oil on canvas; 21 x
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The Ridotto, possibly ca. 1765 Francesco Guardi (Italian, Venetian, 1712-1793)Oil on canvas; 13 3/8 x
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Francesco Guardi Chapel on Small Island ink and wash 18th century
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Francesco Guardi Landscape Capriccio with Figures oil on panel 18th century
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View of Campo San Polo
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Santa Maria della Salute Francesco Guardi (Italian, Venetian, 1712-1793)Oil on canvas; 21 x 33 3/4
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Giacomo Guardi The Giudecca(Venice) Pen and brown ink and wash on laid paper 19th century
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Portrait of a Halberdier (Francesco Guardi?)
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Francesco Guardi Venetian Scene Pen andbrown ink and brown wash on laid paper 18th century
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Piazza San Marco, probably 1750s Francesco Guardi (Italian, Venetian, 1712-1793)Oil on canvas; 27 1/8 x
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Giacomo Guardi Piazza with St. Mark's(Venice) Pen and brown ink and brown wash on laid paper 19th century
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Auguste Boulard (Fils) San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice (After Francesco Guardi) etching 19th - 20th century
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Francesco Guardi The Old Customs House and the Church of Santa Maria della Salute oil on canvas circa 1785
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The Antechamber of the Sala del Maggior Consiglio, possibly ca. 1765 Francesco Guardi (Italian, Venetian,
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Artist: Francesco Guardi Title: View up the Grand Canal Toward the Rialto Date: about 1785
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Giacomo Guardi Piazza San Marco, Looking West (Venice) Pen and brown ink and brown wash on laid paper 19th century
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Giacomo Guardi The Piazzetta, Looking to the Sea (Venice) Pen and gray-brown ink and wash over traces of black chalk on laid paper 19th century
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Venice from the Bacino di San Marco Francesco Guardi (Italian, Venetian, 1712-1793)Oil on canvas; 48
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A Theatrical Performance
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Giacomo Guardi The Grand Canal,Venice at the Rialto Bridge pen andbrown ink and brown and gray washes on laid paper late 18th century
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Giacomo Guardi Piazza San Marco with Clocktower and Cathedral (Venice) Pen and gray-brown ink and wash over traces of black chalk on laid paper 19th century
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Capriccio Francesco Guardi (Italian, Venetian, 1712-1793)Oil on canvas; 12 3/8 x 10 5/8 in. (31.4
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Venice: The Rialto Workshop of Francesco Guardi (Italian, Venetian, 1712-1793)Oil on wood; 7 1/8 x
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Francesco Guardi - Capriccio of a Harbor c. 1760-1770 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art Italian
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Francesco Guardi - Tobias and the Angel 1750's oil on canvas Cleveland Museum of Art Italian
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Venice: The Dogana and Santa Maria della Salute Workshop of Francesco Guardi (Italian, Venetian, 1712-1793)Oil
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Francesco Guardi - The Angels Appearing to Abraham 1750's oil on canvas Cleveland Museum of Art Italian
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Francesco Guardi - View of Dolo on the Brenta c. 1780 oil on canvas The Detroit Institute of Art Italian
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Francesco Guardi - Venice Viewed from the Bacino c. 1780 oil on canvas Kimbell Art Museum Italian
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After Francesco Guardi, Italian (Venetian), 1712-1793 Rio dei Mendicanti, Venice (after a painting in the
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Francesco Guardi, Italian (Venetian), 1712-1793 An Archway with Figures 18th century Pen and brown ink
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Francesco Guardi - Forte S. Andrea Del Lido, Venice 1760-1770 oil on canvas The Fitzwilliam Museum Italian
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Francesco Guardi - View on the Cannaregio Canal, Venice c. 1775-1780 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art Italian
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Francesco Guardi - View up the Grand Canal Toward the Rialto c. 1785 oil on canvas Minneapolis Institute of Arts Italian
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Francesco Guardi - View of the Rialto, Venice, from the Grand Canal c. 1780-1790 Oil on Canvas Norton Simon Museum Italian
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Francesco Guardi - Fanciful View of the Castel Sant'Angelo, Rome c. 1785 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art Italian
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Francesco Guardi - Grand Canal with the Rialto Bridge, Venice c. 1780 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art Italian
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Francesco Guardi - Temporary Tribune in the Campo San Zanipolo, Venice 1782 or after oil on canvas National Gallery of Art Italian
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Francesco Guardi - View towards Murano from the Fondamente Nuove, Venice n.d. oil on canvas The Fitzwilliam Museum Italian
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Francesco Guardi, Italian (Venetian), 1712-1793 View of the Piazza San Marco, Venice; verso: Part of
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Francesco Guardi, Italian (Venetian), 1712-1793 Procession of Gondolas in the Bacino de San Marco about
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Francesco Guardi - View of the Santa Maria della Salute with the Dogana di Mare n.d. Oil on Canvas Norton Simon Museum Italian
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A Female Saint Contemplating a Crucifix
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Workshop of Francesco Guardi, Italian (Venetian), 1712-1793 Entrance to the Arsenal, Venice Oil on canvas
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Antonio Sandi Prospect of the Armory at Venice Etching, engraving 18th century
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Giovanni Francesco Barbieri - Cardinal Francesco Cennini 1625 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art Italian
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Antonio Guardi - Head of a Woman c. 1739 oil on canvas Cleveland Museum of Art Italian
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Saint Lucy Francesco Zaganelli (Francesco di Bosio) (Italian, Romagnole, active by 1499, died 1532)Tempera and
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Portrait of a Man Francesco Salviati (Francesco de" Rossi) (Italian, Florentine, 1510-1563)Oil on canvas; 37
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Gian Lorenzo Bernini - Monsignor Francesco Barberini c. 1623 marble National Gallery of Art Italian
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Francesco Bartolozzi Costante di fortuna ad ogni evento..., after Francesco Zuccarelli Etching-engraving 18th century
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Madonna and Child with Saints Francis and Jerome, 1500-10 Francesco Francia (Francesco di Marco di
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After Antonio Guardi, Italian, 1698-1760 Fan Italy, 1750s Skin leaf painted in gouache; pierced, painted,
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The Nativity Francesco di Giorgio (Francesco Maurizio di Giorgio di Martino Pollaiuolo) (Italian, Sienese, 1439-1501)Tempera
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Pier Francesco Mola Rest on the Flight into Egypt Etching and engraving mid 17th century
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Francesco Curti Titlepage from the series Scelta di Disegni del Caracci , Parmegiani/ et di Guido Reni/ intagliati da Francesco Curti... Engraving 17th century
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Francesco Bartolozzi Venus and Adonis Etching 1791
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Francesco Bartolozzi A Lady Reading, after Guercino Etching 18th century
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Giulio Tomba Samson on the battlefield of the slain Philistines, after a drawing by Francesco Rosaspina from a painting by Guido Reni Engraving 19th century
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Francesco Bartolozzi Bust of a Bearded Warrior, after Guercino Etching 18th century
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Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints and Angels Francesco Botticini (Francesco di Giovanni) (Italian, Florentine,
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Portrait of a Woman Francesco Montemezzano (Italian, Venetian, born about 1540, died after 1602)Oil on
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Saint Sebastian Francesco Botticini (Francesco di Giovanni) (Italian, Florentine, born about 1446, died 1497)Tempera and
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Francesco Bartolozzi Soldier About To Behead A Woman, after Guercino Etching 1798
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Francesco Bartolozzi High Priest Sacrificing A Ram, after Guercino Etching 18th century
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Giovanni Antonio Guardi - The Sala grande of the Ridotto, Palazzo Dandolo, S. Moise 1765 oil on canvas The Fitzwilliam Museum Italian
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Francesco Curti The Virgin Teaching the Infant Jesus to Read, after Guercino Engraving 17th century
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Madonna and Child, ca. 1495-1500 Francesco Francia (Francesco di Marco di Giacomo Raibolini) (Italian, Bolognese,
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Pier Francesco Mola Madonna and Child Etching 17th century
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Francesco Rosaspina The Entombment, after a study by Parmigianino Etching and aquatint 1788
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Madonna and Child, ca. 1520 Francesco Granacci (Francesco di Andrea di Marco) (Italian, Florentine, 1469-1543)Oil
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Francesco Bartolozzi Queen Esther And Ahauserus, after Guercino Etching 18th century
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Francesco Bartolozzi Bust of an Old Man Facing Left, after Guercino Etching 18th century
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Portrait of a Man Francesco Salviati (Francesco de" Rossi) (Italian, Florentine, 1510-1563)Oil on canvas; 48
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Francesco Bartolozzi The Madonna With the Infant Jesus And St. John the Baptist, after Guercino, from the series Racolta di alcuni disegni del Barbieri da Cento detto il Guercino Etching 1764
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Francesco Bartolozzi The Madonna With The Infant Jesus and St. John the Baptist, after Guercino Etching 18th century
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Francesco Bartolozzi A Family in Prayer, after Guercino, from the series Raccolta di alcuni disegni... Etching 1764
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Francesco Bartolozzi Classical shepherd with cattle and sheep Etching 18th - 19th century
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Giulio Tomba The Studio of Francesco Rosaspina, after Felice Giani Engraving 1811
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Francesco Bartolozzi The Virgin Nursing the Infant Jesus, after Guercino Etching and engraving 1785
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Federigo Gonzaga (1500-1540), 1510 Francesco Francia (Francesco di Marco di Giacomo Raibolini) (Italian, Bolognese, active
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Johann Friedrich Greuter Socrates (?) and His Students, afterGiovanni Francesco Romanelli Engraving 17th century
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Herodias, before 1635 Francesco Cairo (Italian, Lombard, 1607-1665)Oil on canvas; 29 5/8 x 24 5/8
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Francesco d"Este (born about 1430, died after 1475), ca. 1460 Rogier van der Weyden (Netherlandish,
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Goddess of Chaste Love, fragment of a cassone panel, 1468-75 Francesco di Giorgio (Francesco Maurizio
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Saint Roch, altarpiece, 1502 Francesco Francia (Francesco di Marco di Giacomo Raibolini) (Italian, Bolognese, active
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Francesco Rosaspina St. Margaret and the Virgin Engraving and etching 18th - 19th century
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Francesco Rosaspina A Man and Woman Seated on a Bench Etching 18th - 19th century
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Francesco Rosaspina Virgin and Child with Saints, after Parmigianino Etching 17 - 18th century
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Alessandro Allori Portrait of Francesco I de'Medici oil on panel 16th century
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Francesco Bartolozzi [Adam and Eve] 1792
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Francesco Bartolozzi The Virgin Watching the Infant Jesus Embracing the Infant St. John the Baptist, after Guercino Etching 1764
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Pellegrino da Colle Les fruits trop dangereux de l'humaine avarice (The most dangerous fruits of human greed), after Francesco Maggiotto Engraving and etching 17 - 18th century
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Francesco Bartolozzi [Faery Elves] 1792
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Francesco Bartolozzi [Adam and Eve under a tree] 1796
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Francesco Bartolozzi [One of the gods among the stars ] 1793

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (2)
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Centre Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona: Canaletto: An Imaginary Venice
INTRODUCTION
Frick Collection: Master Drawings from the Smith College Museum of Art
Among the other artists represented in the exhibition are Northern European masters Matthias Grünewald, Jan van Goyen, Adoph von Menzel, Piet Mondrian, and Paul Klee. Italian artists include Fra Bartolommeo, Rosso Fiorentino, Federico Barocci, Gi...

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