Masters of Their Craft
Artists
Discover the visionaries who shaped the course of art history.
39,743 artists in the collection
G. Saetta
G. Schuster
G. Serré
Guacialoti, Andrea
Italian
Florentine, 1435 - 1495
Guacimo
Guangdong Provincial Museum
Guang Jun
Guanyu Xu
Guápiles
Guarana, Jacopo
Italian
Italian, 1720 - 1808
Guaraní
Guardi, Francesco
Italian
Venetian, 1712 - 1793
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. 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.