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.
Paintings by Francesco Guardi
Miracle of a Dominican Saint (1765)
The Miracle of a Dominican Saint is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Italian painter Francesco Guardi, from 1763. It is held in the collection of the Kunsthistorisches Museum, in Vienna.
The painting was made for the chapel of Saint Dominic in the Church of Saint Peter the Martyr, on the island of Murano, Venice, where it was until 1807; since 1825 it was preserved in the Church of San Giovanni Evangelista in Venice. It was afterwards acquired by Daniele Polacco, in Venice, and later by Count Andrássy, in Budapest. In 1931 it was acquired by the Kunsthistorisches Museum, in Vienna, with the help of the friends of the museum, where it has been since then.
Fire in the Oil Depot at San Marcuola (1790)
Fire in the Oil Depot at San Marcuola is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Venetian vedutista Francesco Guardi, created c. 1790. It has small dimensions and is in the Alte Pinakothek, in Munich. It was one of the last paintings by Guardi who died in 1792.
The painting is based on a fire that broke out at night on November 28, 1789, in the district of Cannareggio, near the church of San Marcuola. The fire appears to be burning oil on the waters of a canal. In the foreground of the painting, a crowd of men has gathered to witness the event. In the buildings in the background, there appear to be men on rooftops appearing to fight the fire.
Regatta in Venice (1770)
Regatta in Venice is a small oil-on canvas-painting executed c. 1770 by the Italian painter Francesco Guardi. It is now in The Frick Collection, in New York. The painting was gifted to the museum by Helen Clay Frick, the daughter of Henry Clay Frick, who founded the Frick Collection.
The painting depicts the Grand Canal (Venice). In the distance the Rialto Bridge is visible alongside the bell tower of the church of San Bartolomeo and the dome of the Church of Santi Giovanni e Paolo, Venice. Guardi has included this fifteenth century Italian Gothic Church as well as the more recent seventeenth century bell tower, documenting both historical and contemporary changes in the urban landscape. In the foreground of the painting Guardi paints the Palazzo Balbi built by Alessandro Vittoria from 1582 as the residence of the Venetian patrician family of the Balbi.
The Grand Canal with the Rialto Bridge from the South (1775)
The Grand Canal with the Rialto Bridge from the South is an oil-on-canvas painting executed c. 1775 by Italian painter Francesco Guardi. It is one of the many cityscapes that he made from Venice. It is held in the collection of the San Diego Museum of Art.
View of the Cannaregio Canal (1770)
View of the Cannaregio Canal is a small oil-on-canvas painting executed ca. 1770 by the Italian painter Francesco Guardi. It measuring 48.9 × 77.5 cm. It is now in the reading room of the Frick Art Reference Library alongside the Regatta in Venice. Both paintings were gifted to the Frick Collection by Helen Clay Frick after her father's death. In the painting, Guardi captures a typical scene of Venetian life on the canals. In this particular veduta, Guardi depicts a section of the northern bank of the Cannaregio Canal, one of Venice’s largest canals, located in the Cannaregio sestiere (district) of the city.
The Palazzo Surian Bellotto is the most prominent building in the painting, named after the two different families who owned the palace: first the Surian family and then the Bellotto family.
The Doge on the Bucintoro near the Riva di Sant'Elena (1770)
The Doge on the Bucintoro near the Riva di Sant'Elena (also known as The Departure of the Bucentaur for the Ascension Day Ceremony, and other similar titles) is an oil painting on canvas by the Venetian painter Francesco Guardi. It was painted between 1775 and 1780, and is now in the Louvre in Paris.
This work is one of a series of twelve paintings representing the Solennità dogali (The Doge's Solemnities), in which the artist has faithfully copied the scenes drawn by Giovanni Antonio Canal and engraved by Giambattista Brustolon to commemorate the festivities at the coronation of the Doge Alvise Giovanni Mocenigo in 1763. This has led to some confusion, and the canvases were formerly attributed to Canaletto, though their style was quite unmistakably that of Guardi.
Venetian Gala Concert (1782)
Galakonzert zu Ehren des russischen Thronfolgerpaares in der Sala dei Filarmonici in den Alten Prokuratien, Venedig, 1782.
The Procesion of the Doge at San Zaccaria (1775)
La Procession du doge de Venise à San Zaccaria
The Doge's Palace from the Bacino di San Marco (1780)
Italian paintings in the Louvre
The Parlor of the Nuns at San Zaccaria (1750)
The Parlor of the Nuns at San Zaccaria, by Francesco Guardi. Sala del Parlatorio, Ca' Rezzonico, Venice
Palace steps (1770)
The Courtyard of the Palazzo Ducale with the Scala dei Giganti seen through the Arco Foscari.