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 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, Francesco Guardi and Giovanni 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 Ciardi's work, Diaphanous Day 1924, a painting of
Venice.
Diaphanous Day had been exhibited at Ciardi's 1928 exhibition at
the Fine Art Society exhibition, "Paintings Fantastic and Venetian Subjects".
Fantastic subjects referred to the genre paintings Ciardi also had became
known for, with titles such as Le Jardin d'amour and le Rendez-Vous.
Her paintings often 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 and an escape from the
modern world. Several were owned by the Italian royal family.
Source:
Art Fortune, http://www.artfortune.com/emma-ciardi/artist-31264/
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