Panaromic View of the Bacino di San Marco, Looking up the Giudecca Canal, 1780?93, Pen and brown ink, light brown wash, on two sheets of paper, joined. , 13 3/4 x 26 5/8 in. (34. 9 x 67. 6 cm), Drawings, Francesco Guardi (Italian, Venice 1712?1793 Venice), Francesco Guardi succeeded Canaletto as the leading view painter in Venice in the second half of the eighteenth century. A prolific draftsman, his early drawings owe a debt to Canaletto's topographical style, while later sheets show a greater sensitivity to the changing light and atmosphere