Francesco Guardi

Francesco Guardi (Venice, 1712 - id., 1793) was an Italian painter of the 18th century.

Biography

He is the father of the painter Giacomo Guardi (1764 - 1835).

Francesco Lazzaro Guardi is the son of the painter Domenico and of Maria Claudia Pichler, he is baptized on October 5th, 1712 in the church Venetian of Santa Maria Formosa; these two parents belong to the nobility. His/her father dies on October 16th, 1716 leaving his wife and his children Gianantonio, Maria Cecilia, Francesco E Nicolò. Its first Gianantonio wire inherits the shop his/her father.

Its work

With Canaletto, it is the painter par excellence Vedute , these at the same time picturesque and meticulous “sights” of Venice, a pictorial kind which opens out fully at the 18th century.

It is born in a dedicated family with painting: his/her father, Domenico, were already painter and two other brothers will be painters like him, so much so that it is sometimes difficult to allot today to each one what returns to him.

Until the fifty years age, he exerts only one subordinate role in the workshop of his brother Gianantonio, painter of religious tables. After the death of this last, it is directed then towards the veduta.

It deeply renewed the inspiration of it: where Canaletto sticks to a representation of a cold perfection, he adds a heat light.

Its vision of Venice influenced that of the great painters who used this city as source of inspiration (Turner and Monet inter alia).

Books

Antonio Morassi: Guardi. Tutti I Disegni di Antonio, Francesco E Giacomo Guardi , ED. on 1975,458 pages, 680 illustrations.

See too

Internal bonds

the family of painters Guardi
List of Italian painters

External bonds

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