Buildings

    Gaertner is best known for chronicling the rapidly modernizing Berlin cityscape.
    This relatively intimate view, culminating in the city's oldest church, the Nikolaikirche, illustrates earlier modes of urban life with evident affection.
    Two other versions of the composition are known:one is in the Nationalgalerie, Berlin; the other was destroyed during the Second World War.

The Villa Loredan, Paese

    Guardi rarely painted views of the Venetian mainland, and this is one of his most successful.
    Buildings, plantings, and figural groups punctuate the calm, verdant plane of the lawn that, in tandem with the sky, gives the impression of a vast, open space.
    The work is one of a set of four painted for John Strange (1732 - 1799), author, antiquarian, naturalist, connoisseur, and diplomat, who served as the official British Resident in Venice between 1773 and 1788.

Venice: The Rialto

    Guardi's views of Venice were hugely popular among eighteenth-century visitors to the city.
    However, not all of the paintings were by the artist himself.
    His workshop reproduced compositions and motifs based on his earlier paintings and drawings, while emulators took advantage of the market for the taste he had helped to set.