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Guglielmo Ciardi (13 September 1842 – 5 October 1917) was an Italian painter.

Biography

He was born in

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, the son of an official of the Austrian government. Ciardi enrolled in 1861 at the Venice Academy of Fine Arts, where he studied perspective with

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and landscape and seascape with Domenico Bresolin, taking over the latter’s teaching post in 1894. He went to

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in 1868 and formed friendships with Giovanni Costa and the

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painters. After spending some time in the countryside around

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, he then arrived in

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and came into contact with

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and the artists of the Resina School. On his return to

the following year, he resumed his regular participation in the exhibitions of the

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and the Società Promotrice di Belle Arti. Works were also sent to exhibitions in

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, Florence and Naples in the 1870s and 1880s. He participated in the Milan Triennale during the 1890s, and in the Turin Exhibition of 1898 and the Venice Biennale from 1895 to 1914, with a solo show in 1909. Views of the Venetian lagoon and the countryside around Treviso were accompanied by mountain landscapes painted during his numerous stays in towns in Veneto, Trentino and Lombardy. Awarded a gold medal in 1915 at the

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Exhibition, where the participants included his children

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and

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, he was struck down by paralysis and died two years later.

References

* Laura Casone
Guglielmo Ciardi
, online catalogu
Artgate
by

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, 2010, CC BY-SA (source for the first revision of this article).

Other projects

Biography and ''In Laguna''
at the Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna at Turin. {{DEFAULTSORT:Ciardi, Guglielmo 19th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 20th-century Italian painters 20th-century Italian male artists Painters from Venice Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia alumni Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia faculty 1842 births 1917 deaths 19th-century Italian male artists