Francesco Guardi is remembered for work the next generation could not ignore.
The record lists Francesco Guardi as Italian painter (1712-1793).
Francesco Guardi was born at Venice in 1712. His recorded nationality is Italy.
Academies set the rules in this period - what counted as a serious subject, and who was allowed to train.
He worked as painter and graphic artist.
His recorded movement is rococo.
Among his best-known works are A Regatta on the Grand Canal with the Rialto Bridge in Venice, Landscape with a Quay and Ships on a Lake and The Doge Alvise IV. Mocenigo on the Bucentaur near the Riva di Sant'Elena. A painting outlives the argument about it, which is the only durable form of an artistic reputation.
That the work was made in Italy shaped it: artistic traditions, academies and the galleries that decide what is seen have never been evenly distributed.
Francesco Guardi died in 1793, aged 81. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
Achievements
- Notable work: A Regatta on the Grand Canal with the Rialto Bridge in Venice
- Notable work: Landscape with a Quay and Ships on a Lake
- Notable work: The Doge Alvise IV. Mocenigo on the Bucentaur near the Riva di Sant'Elena
- Notable work: The Parlor of the Nuns at San Zaccaria
- Movement: Rococo
