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GUARDI, FRANCESCO (1712-1793)

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 656 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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GUARDI, FRANCESCO (1712-1793)

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FRANCESCO
FRANCESCO, 210
FRANCESCO (1712-1793) , Venetian painter, was a See also:

PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)

pupil of Canaletto, and followed his See also:

style so closely that his pictures are very frequently attributed to his more celebrated See also:

MASTER (Lat. magister, related to tnagis, more, as the corresponding minister is to minus, less; the English form is due partly to the O. Eng. maegister, and partly to O. Fr. maistre, mod. maitre; cf. Du. meester, Ger. Meister, Ital. maestro)

master. Nevertheless, the diversity, when once perceived, is sufficiently marked—Canaletto being more See also:

FIRM

firm, solid, distinct, well-grounded, and on the whole the higher master, while Guardi is noticeable for spirited See also:

TOUCH (derived through Fr. toucher from a common Teutonic and Indo-Germanic root, cf. " tug," " tuck," O. H. Ger. zucchen, to twitch or draw)

touch, sparkling See also:

COLOUR (Lat. color, connected with celare, to hide, the root meaning, therefore, being that of a covering)

colour and picturesquely sketched figures—in these respects being fully equal to Canaletto. Guardi sometimes coloured Canaletto's designs. He had extraordinary facility, three or four days being enough for producing an entire See also:

WORK

work. The number of his performances is large in proportion to this facility 'and to the love of gain which characterized him. Many of his See also:

WORKS

works are to be found in See also:

England and seven in the Louvre.

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