![]() ![]() A city going through a period of decadence that would later lead to the end of the republic’s independence, but a city that hardly seemed to notice all this and continued to live as in its best years, in a brilliant and refined cultural atmosphere. Moreover, throughout the eighteenth century, Venice continued to attract many foreign visitors. Eighteenth-century Venice is thus characterized by great cultural fervor: life in the city flowed between great festivals, worldliness and entertainment. But even if the loss of prestige was unstoppable, Venice nevertheless experienced a great cultural season in this epoch, not only in the figurative arts, and there were indeed many great Venetian painters who worked in these years, but also in other fields: think for example of music, with Antonio Vivaldi, or of literature with Giacomo Casanova, Francesco Algarotti, Carlo Gozzi but above all with Carlo Goldoni. So, like Canaletto, Francesco Guardi also experienced the slow and unstoppable decline of the Serenissima, which continued, throughout the 18th century, not only to lose its territories, but also to lose more and more economic and political importance, as the Republic had also renounced policies of expansion but settled for a policy of preservation. The artist disappeared in 1793, a few years before the end of the independence of the Venetian Republic in 1797. Guardi was the author of works of art characterized by elusive, nostalgic and melancholy atmospheres, from which the decline of the Venetian Republic is perceived, but also very suggestive and evocative, so much so that some consider him a forerunner of Romanticism. Although he came late to paint the views that made him famous, his is a highly original art, in that the landscape is not rendered objectively, but is filtered through his feeling and mood. His life and works.įrancesco Guardi (Venice, 1712 - 1793), a Venetian born into a family of Trentino origin who moved to the lagoon, was one of the greatest vedutisti and one of the most important painters of the 18th century. Francesco Guardi proposed a particular interpretation of vedutismo, with sentimental views that anticipated Romanticism. ![]()
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