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Giovanni Antonio Guardi

Italian, 1699-1766
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Giovanni Antonio Guardi, also known as Gianantonio Guardi, was an Italian painter and nobleman. Guardi was one of the founders of the Venetian Academy in 1756.

He was born in Vienna into a family of nobility from Trentino. His father Domenico (born in 1678) was a Baroque painter. Gianantonio and his brothers Niccolò and Francesco (also painters), later inherited the family workshop after their father's death in 1716. They probably all contributed as a team to some of the larger commissions later attributed to his brother Francesco Guardi. His sister Maria Cecilia married the pre-eminent Veneto-European painter of his epoch, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo.

He may have received his artistic training in Vienna, where he is first recorded in 1719, but had established a workshop in Venice by 1730. Among his first important clients was the connoisseur and collector Johann Matthias von der Schulenburg, for whom Guardi created numerous paintings with an Orientalist theme.

He produced copies after the work of other artists, as well as a series of originals with Turkish-inspired interiors as easel pictures for private decorations. Antonio Guardi trained his younger brothers Nicolò and Francesco in his workshop, the latter working closely with him as a figure painter before establishing himself as a vedutista in the late 1750s.

A founder member of the Accademia Veneziana in 1756, the elder Guardi produced several works for churches in Venice, notably in the Church of the Angelo San Raffaele, as well as decorative cycles for palaces and villas in the city and the surrounding countryside. Francesco Casanova was among his pupils.

He died in Venice in 1760.

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Erminia and the Shepherds

Erminia and the Shepherds (1750-1755)

Giovanni Antonio Guardi (Italian, 1699-1766)
Religion
Two Odalisques Playing Music in the Harem

Two Odalisques Playing Music in the Harem (1742)

Giovanni Antonio Guardi (Italian, 1699-1766)
Figurative
Two Odalisques Playing Mancala in the Harem

Two Odalisques Playing Mancala in the Harem (1742)

Giovanni Antonio Guardi (Italian, 1699-1766)
Figurative
A Sultana taking Coffee in the Harem

A Sultana taking Coffee in the Harem (1742-43)

Giovanni Antonio Guardi (Italian, 1699-1766)
Figurative
Apollo

Apollo

Giovanni Antonio Guardi (Italian, 1699-1766)
Mythology
Diana

Diana

Giovanni Antonio Guardi (Italian, 1699-1766)
Mythology
A Harem Scene With Soldiers Smoking And Odalisques Relaxing And Playing On a Swing In An Interior Courtyard

A Harem Scene With Soldiers Smoking And Odalisques Relaxing And Playing On a Swing In An Interior Courtyard

Giovanni Antonio Guardi (Italian, 1699-1766)
Figurative
Danaë

Danaë

Giovanni Antonio Guardi (Italian, 1699-1766)
Mythology
Head of a Woman

Head of a Woman (c. 1739)

Giovanni Antonio Guardi (Italian, 1699-1766)
Figurative
The Fight between Tancred and Argante With Clorinda in the Background

The Fight between Tancred and Argante With Clorinda in the Background (1714 – 1760)

Giovanni Antonio Guardi (Italian, 1699-1766)
Mythology
Carlo and Ubaldo Resisting The Enchantments of Armida’s Nymphs

Carlo and Ubaldo Resisting The Enchantments of Armida’s Nymphs (1750-1755)

Giovanni Antonio Guardi (Italian, 1699-1766)
Mythology
Interior,A Sultana taking Coffee in the Harem

Interior,A Sultana taking Coffee in the Harem (1742)

Giovanni Antonio Guardi (Italian, 1699-1766)
Figurative
Male Nude

Male Nude (c. 1725)

Giovanni Antonio Guardi (Italian, 1699-1766)
Drawings
Male Nude

Male Nude (1750s)

Giovanni Antonio Guardi (Italian, 1699-1766)
Drawings
Jacopo Marcello Directing the Assault of Gallipoli

Jacopo Marcello Directing the Assault of Gallipoli (1750-1760)

Giovanni Antonio Guardi (Italian, 1699-1766)
Drawings
The Good Samaritan

The Good Samaritan (1699–1766)

Giovanni Antonio Guardi (Italian, 1699-1766)
Drawings
Half Length Figure of a Magi

Half Length Figure of a Magi (1750–1760)

Giovanni Antonio Guardi (Italian, 1699-1766)
Drawings
A Female Saint Contemplating a Crucifix

A Female Saint Contemplating a Crucifix (1745)

Giovanni Antonio Guardi (Italian, 1699-1766)
Drawings
Apotheosis of a saint

Apotheosis of a saint (ca 1735-1740)

Giovanni Antonio Guardi (Italian, 1699-1766)
Drawings
Personifikation des Glaubens (Fides) mit drei Engeln

Personifikation des Glaubens (Fides) mit drei Engeln (ca 1735-1740)

Giovanni Antonio Guardi (Italian, 1699-1766)
Drawings

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