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Rio dei Mendicanti, oil on canvas by Francesco Guardi; in the Galleria dell'Accademia Carrara, Bergamo, Italy. Plate 13: “View of the Lagoon,” oil painting by Francesco Guardi (1712-93). In the Museo di Castelvecchio, Verona, Italy. 33 x 51 cm.
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Born 1712 • Venice • Italy
Died 1793 (aged 81) • Venice • Italy
Movement / Style Rococo • Venetian school
Notable Family Members brother Gianantonio Guardi

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Rio dei Mendicanti, oil on canvas by Francesco Guardi; in the Galleria dell'Accademia Carrara, Bergamo, Italy.
Plate 13: “View of the Lagoon,” oil painting by Francesco Guardi (1712-93). In the Museo di Castelvecchio, Verona, Italy. 33 x 51 cm.
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Canaletto: The Doges' Palace and Piazza San Marco, Venice
Canaletto
Italian artist
Bellotto, Bernardo: The Campo di SS. Giovanni e Paolo, Venice
Bernardo Bellotto
Italian painter
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
Italian artist
“Fortune Teller,” oil painting by Piazzetta, 1740; in the Accademia, Venice
Giovanni Battista Piazzetta
Italian painter
Pietro Longhi
Venetian artist
“Landscape with Figures,” by Francesco Zuccarelli; in the Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan
Francesco Zuccarelli
Italian painter
Gianantonio Guardi
Venetian painter
Venus of Urbino by Titian
Titian
Italian painter
Tintoretto: Last Supper
Tintoretto
Italian painter
Bellini, Giovanni: Saint Jerome Reading
Giovanni Bellini
Italian painter
The Adoration of the Shepherds by Giorgione
Giorgione
Italian painter
The Finding of Moses, oil on canvas by Paolo Veronese, probably 1570/75; in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. 58 × 44.5 cm.
Paolo Veronese
Italian painter
Antonio Vivarini
Italian painter
Miracle of the True Cross at the Bridge of San Lorenzo
Gentile Bellini
Italian painter
“The Virgin Enthroned with Child and Saints” by Crivelli, 1491; in the Prussian Cultural Property Foundation, Gallery of Paintings, Berlin
Carlo Crivelli
Italian painter
The Annunciation to the Shepherds, oil on canvas by Jacopo Bassano, probably 1555/1560; in the Samuel H. Kress Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. 106.1 × 82.6 cm.
Jacopo Bassano
Italian painter
Jacopo Bellini: The Nativity
Jacopo Bellini
Italian painter
Vittore Carpaccio
Italian painter
Paris Bordone
Italian painter
Antonello da Messina: Virgin Annunciate
Antonello da Messina
Italian painter

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