Francesco Guardi - Wikipedia Francesco Lazzaro Guardi (Italian pronunciation: [franˈtʃesko ˈgwardi]; 5 October 1712 – 1 January 1793) was an Italian painter, nobleman, and a member of the Venetian School He is considered to be among the last practitioners, along with his brothers, of the classic Venetian school of painting
Francesco Guardi | Piazza San Marco - The Metropolitan Museum of Art Guardi employs a playful, illusionistic device by signing his name in the miniature canvas being carried by the man at lower right It appears to depict something otherwise absent in this view of San Marco: gondolas and the choppy water of Venice’s famous canals
Francesco Guardi | 18th-century, Venice, Landscapes - Britannica Francesco Guardi (born 1712, Venice, Italy—died 1793, Venice) was one of the outstanding Venetian landscape painters of the Rococo period Francesco and his brother Nicolò (1715–86) were trained under their elder brother, Giovanni Antonio Guardi
Francesco Guardi — Google Arts Culture Francesco Lazzaro Guardi was an Italian painter, nobleman, and a member of the Venetian School He is considered to be among the last practitioners, along with his brothers,
Francesco Guardi (1712 - 1793) | National Gallery, London Francesco Guardi was, after Canaletto, the main painter of views of Venice in the 18th century His early figurative paintings were carried out in association with his brother, Gian Antonio, but in about 1760 Guardi turned to view painting
Francesco Guardi - National Gallery of Art Francesco Guardi, The Fortress of San Andrea from the Lagoon, 1780s, pen and brown ink with brown and gray wash over black on laid paper, with some white gouache, Samuel H Kress Collection, 1963 15 13
Francesco Guardi - Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza From the 1780s onwards Guardi’s style increasingly moved away from that of Canaletto and he included more fantastical elements in his views He evolved towards the depiction of his so-called Capricci, which are ideal or unreal combinations of architectural elements and landscape