He was born in Venice, the son of an official of the Austrian government. Ciardi enrolled in 1861 at the Venice Academy of Fine Arts, where he studied perspective with Federico Moja and landscape and
Guglielmo Ciardi
Sera – Canal Grande, ca. 1899 (Fondazione Cariplo)
Giovanni Costa, often known as Nino Costa, was an Italian landscape painter and patriotic revolutionary.
Portrait of Professor Giovanni Costa by Lord Frederic Leighton, oil on canvas, 48.5 x 39 cm, 1878, now in the Leighton House Museum
Women Loading Wood in Porto d'Anzio, 1850–52
Meditating Under a Tree, 1855-60
Landscape Near the Sea, 1885