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Giovanni Antonio Guardi (1699–1760)

• 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.
• His sister Maria Cecilia married the pre-eminent Veneto-European painter of his epoch, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo.
• Antonio Guardi trained his younger brothers Nicolò and Francesco in his workshop.
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