Giuseppe Guzzardi

Giuseppe Guzzardi (December 8, 1845 – September 14, 1914) was an Italian painter.

His early work showed such promise that the comune awarded him a stipend to study in Florence, where he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts under Antonio Ciseri.

In 1876 at the Academy in Florence, he exhibited The Virgin on Golgotha (now in Sanctuary of Maria SS.

In 1876 he exhibited at the Florentine Promotrice Rural Idyll, which the Artistic Fellowship selected to be copied for distribution to its members.

After the epidemic, he returned to Tuscany and painted landscapes of Sicily, including Turiddu and Carminuzza, exhibited in 1887 at the Florentine Promotrice, and was awarded a gold medal at the International Exposition in Cologne in 1889.