14 Works, Today, May 27th. is Giovanni Antonio Guardi’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #145

Francesco Guardi, Antonio Guardi
Carlo and Ubaldo Resisting the Enchantments of Armida’s Nymphs, c. 1750/1755

Oil on canvas
250.2 x 459.8 cm (98 1/2 x 181 in.)
National Gallery of Art

This painting illustrates a scene from Torquato Tasso’s canto XIX of Jerusalem Delivered. See more below

Giovanni Antonio Guardi (1699–23 January 1760), also known as Gianantonio Guardi, was an Italian painter and nobleman. Guardi was one of the founders of the Venetian Academy in 1756…

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