Example sentences for: guardi

How can you use “guardi” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The extravagant ballroom and soaring allegorical frescoes like Giambattista Tiepolo’s Merit between Virtue and Nobility in the “Throne Room” (actually for Rezzonico weddings) and others, more wistful, by Guardi all catch the tone of a declining Venice and the frivolous lives of the idle rich.

  • Venice stagnated under the rule of a small entrenched élite, drawing nostalgic comfort from the city’s petrified beauty as painted in the vedute of Guardi and Canaletto.

  • Room 17: Canaletto’s hugely popular 18th-century vedute (views) of Venice were aristocratic precursors of modern postcards; in such works as Island of San Giorgio Maggiore, Francesco Guardi achieved both poetry and melancholy.


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