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Also Known As PietroFalca
Born 1702 • Venice • Italy
Died May 8, 1785 (aged 83) • Venice • Italy
Movement / Style Rococo • Venetian school

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Gianantonio Guardi
Venetian 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
Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo: The Procession of the Trojan Horse into Troy
Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo
Italian painter
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
Italian artist
Canaletto: The Doges' Palace and Piazza San Marco, Venice
Canaletto
Italian artist
“Fortune Teller,” oil painting by Piazzetta, 1740; in the Accademia, Venice
Giovanni Battista Piazzetta
Italian painter
Rio dei Mendicanti, oil on canvas by Francesco Guardi; in the Galleria dell'Accademia Carrara, Bergamo, Italy.
Francesco Guardi
Venetian painter
“Landscape with Figures,” by Francesco Zuccarelli; in the Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan
Francesco Zuccarelli
Italian painter
“Pamela Asks Sir Jacob Swinford's Blessing,” illustration no. 11 for Pamela by Samuel Richardson, oil painting by Joseph Highmore, 1744; in the Tate Gallery, London
Joseph Highmore
British painter
The Lion Hunt, oil on canvas by Jean-François de Troy, 1735; in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. 60 × 40.64 cm.
Jean-François de Troy
French painter
The Confessional
Giuseppe Maria Crespi
Italian painter
The Synagogue, oil on canvas by Alessandro Magnasco, 1725–30; in the Cleveland Museum of Art.
Alessandro Magnasco
Italian 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

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