32,8" FRANCESCO GUARDI "View on the Cannaregio Canal, Venice" painting art printed on canvas
FRANCESCO GUARDI (1712 – 1793)
Title of artwork: "View on the Cannaregio Canal, Venice"
Ready to hang on the wall. Canvas on the wooden underframe. Outer frame are not included!
Year: 1775–1780
Technique: printed on canvas nowadays
Condition: perfect
Diagonal: 32,8" or 83,2 cm.
Size: 27,6" x 17,7" (in) or 70 x 45 cm.
Please note that this is a reproduction printed on canvas
The size may differ from how it looks in the photo
Color can be slightly different from the picture.
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,
of the classic Venetian school of painting. In the early part of his career he
collaborated with his older brother Gian Antonio in the production of religious
paintings. After Gian Antonio's death in 1760, Francesco concentrated on
vedute. The earliest of these show the influence of Canaletto, but he gradually
adopted a looser style characterized by spirited brush-strokes and freely
imagined architecture. Guardi's painterly style is known as pittura di tocco
(of touch) for its small dotting and spirited brush-strokes. This looser style
of painting had been used by Giovanni Piazzetta and Sebastiano Ricci, and
recalls, in some religious themes, the sweetened sfumato of Barocci's Bolognese
style. In this he differs from the more linear and architecturally accurate
style of Canaletto's painting. This style, a century later, would make Guardi's
works highly prized by the French Impressionists. A stronger attention to
colours is present in late works such as the Concerto of 80 Orphans of 1782,
now in Munich, in the Façade of Palace with Staircase in the Accademia Carrara
of Bergamo. Guardi died at Campiello de la Madona in Cannaregio (Venice) in
1793.
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