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Biography
The son of Giacomo Guarana, began his activity in his workshop: from 1774 member of the Academy of Fine Arts of Venice and president of the same from 1799 to 1802, his production mainly concerned religious and historical subjects. His first work dates back to 1774 and depicted the Capture of Samson. He worked with his father for the construction of the decorative cycles of Palazzo Barbarigo della Terrazza. Other important works were paintings depicting the Coronation of the Doge Marco Barbarigo and the scene in which the Doge Augustine Barbarigo received from Catherine Cornaro the crown of Cyprus. He worked around 1780 in the church of San Tomà. The portrait works, although less numerous, are not missing: the Portrait of the three avogadori in the Doge's Palace of Venice, the Portrait of the Attorney Alvise Contarini and the Portrait of Ludovico Manin, then dispersed.

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Venetian school painters