Artist: Guardi
Date: 1760
Size: 35 x 58 cm
Museum: Museum of Fine Arts (Budapest, Hungary)
Technique: Drawing
At the start of his career, Francesco Guardi worked with figurative images, but he was to achieve lasting success with his views. The veduta form had developed from engravings of city views illustrating fifteenthsixteenth century world histories, reports of pilgrimages and geographical atlases. Other contributions to the formation of the genre were images of ruins illustrating works on antiquity and picture of urban celebrations. In the late seventeenth-eighteenth century, the veduta became widespread in response to an interest in celebrated places of the world, which had grown progressively stronger since the Renaissance. Travellers also liked to buy views to take home with them. In Italy, Rome and Venice offered the best sights, and attracted the most travellers. The former abounded in ancient and modern art and monumental architecture, and the latter had the Laguna and unique buildings incorporating oriental elements.Francesco Guardi added to the traditions of the Venetian city view with masterful portrayals of the misty coastal atmosphere and the play of light reflected on the water. His pen-and-wash drawings and splendidly coloured paintings record city celebrations and everyday life. Buildings appearing to dissolve in the light and figures broken down into patches created a unique form of expression which might be regarded as a distant precursor of Impressionism.His Budapest drawing is based on Canaletto
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