Emma Ciardi
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Landscapes Art Work
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Emma Ciardi |
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Female |
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Venice, Italy |
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Italian |
| Birth: |
1879 |
| Death: |
1933 |
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Quick Facts
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Landscapes |
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Biography
| Emma Ciardi was born in Venice, where her grandfather, father and brother were all artists, and learned to paint under their instruction. Ciardi attempted to emulate the Italian artists she admired. Guardi and Canaletto. Her work was acclaimed during her lifetime she was made an Honorary Academician at the Royal Academies of Art in Venice and Milan, and won medals at international exhibitions.Over twenty years earlier, Ciardi had shown eighty paintings at the Leicester Galleries in London. Her exhibition there featured London cityscapes, including Oxford Street, From Waterloo Bridge and Nelson's Column. Also on show were her paintings of Venice. La Regatta Vicino a! Rialto, Venezia, a sweeping view of gondolas crowding the waterway, was bought by Mary Davis and her husband. The Davises were also the first owners of Diaphanous Day 1924, a painting of Venice.Diaphanous Day had been exhibited at Ciardi's 1928 exhibition at the Fine Art Society, Paintings Fantastic and Venetian Subjects. Fantastic subjects referred to the genre paintings Ciardi also became known for, with titles such as Le Jardin d'amour and le Rendez-Vous. They depicted Italian ornamental gardens, including the Villa d'Este and the Villa Borghese, inhabited by elegant figures in eighteenth century costume. Ciardi's paintings are likely to have tapped into a desire to reinvent the past as an idyllic, untroubled age. An escape from the modern world. Several were owned by the Italian royal family. |
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