Gaspare Diziani (1689 – 17 August 1767) was an Italian painter of the late-

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Roccoco Rococo (, also ), less commonly Roccoco or Late Baroque, is an exceptionally ornamental and theatrical style of architecture, art and decoration which combines asymmetry, scrolling curves, gilding, white and pastel colours, sculpted moulding, ...

period, active mainly in the

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but also in

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and

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. The artist's canvas is the largest painting of the

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Biography

His earliest training was in his native town of

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with Antonio Lazzarini. He then moved to Venice, to the studio of

Gregorio Lazzarini Gregorio Lazzarini (1657 – 10 November 1730) was an Italian painter of mythological, religious and historical subjects, as well as portraits. One of the most successful Venetian artists of the day, a prominent teacher, and father to a signific ...

and later that of

Sebastiano Ricci Sebastiano Ricci (1 August 165915 May 1734) was an Italian painter of the late Baroque school of Venice. About the same age as Piazzetta, and an elder contemporary of Tiepolo, he represents a late version of the vigorous and luminous Cortonesqu ...

. His career largely overlapped with Lazzarini and Ricci's fellow pupil,

Giambattista Tiepolo Giovanni Battista Tiepolo ( , ; March 5, 1696 – March 27, 1770), also known as Giambattista (or Gianbattista) Tiepolo, was an Italian painter and printmaker from the Republic of Venice who painted in the Rococo style, considered an import ...

, who was seven years his elder. Between 1710-1720, he painted a group of eight pictures that included the ''Mary Magdalene'' for the church of Santo Stefano in Belluno, and ''Entry into Jerusalem'' for San Teodoro in

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. He also painted three frescoes on the ''Life of Saint Helena'' in the Scuola del Vin next to the church of San Silvestro. Diziani's celerity and technical assurance are evident from preparatory oil sketches, where color has been applied in rapid and spirited strokes. He also worked as a scenery painter for the theater and

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in Venice, Munich (1717), and later in Dresden, in conjunction with

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. Diziani was invited to Rome by ''

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'' in 1726, to paint a "magnificent decoration for the church of ''

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''". This work is now known only through an engraving by Claude Vasconi. The ''Sala dei Pastelli'' in

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has a ''

sotto in su Illusionistic ceiling painting, which includes the techniques of perspective ''di sotto in sù'' and ''quadratura'', is the tradition in Renaissance, Baroque and Rococo art in which ''trompe-l'œil'', perspective tools such as foreshortening, an ...

'' allegorical ceiling fresco of ''The Triumph of Poetry'' (Poetry surrounded by Painting, Architecture, Music and Sculpture). File:Diziani_Gaspare,_Orazione_nell%27orto_del_Getsemani.jpg, ''Getsemani'' File:Gaspare_Diziani_-_Adoration_of_the_Magi_-_WGA6355.jpg, ''Adoration of the Magi'' File:Gaspare_Diziani_-_Adoration_of_the_Shepherds_-_WGA6357.jpg, ''Adoration of the Shepherds'' Gaspare Diziani.jpg, ''Adoration of the Magi'' (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam) File:Gaspare Diziani - Finding of Moses - WGA06359.jpg, ''Finding Moses'' File:Gaspare Diziani Trzej aniolowie u Abrahama.jpg, ''Abraham & Angels'' File:Gaspare Diziani-Satyr.JPG, ''Satyr & Peasant''

Legacy

Both Tiepolo and Diziani were prolific, although Diziani's commissions, especially the early ones, were more playful bedroom, small salon, and perishable scenographic decorations, works for ''private ornament''Lanzi, Luigi. The History of Painting in Italy from the Period of the Revival of the Fine Arts (1853)H.G. Bohn; page 305 while the more eminent Tiepolo was able to attract the more vast ceiling decorations encompassing devotional, mythologic, and allegorical topics beyond and above the quotidian. Diziani does show the influence of Tiepolo, although not the lightness of coloration that the latter had gained from the frescoes of

Luca Giordano Luca Giordano (18 October 1634 – 3 January 1705) was an Italian late-Baroque painter and printmaker in etching. Fluent and decorative, he worked successfully in Naples and Rome, Florence, and Venice, before spending a decade in Spain. Ear ...

. His pupils included

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and

Jacopo Marieschi Jacopo Marieschi (1711–1794) was a Venetian history painter. Formerly he was confused with the prominent vedute painter, Michele Marieschi, his close contemporary.Martineau, Jane, and Robison, Andrew, ''The Glory of Venice: Art in the Eightee ...

(1711–1794). His son,

Antonio Diziani Antonio Diziani (9 February 1737 – 23 June 1797) was an Italian painter of the 18th century, active mainly in painting vedute or landscapes and vistas of Venice. His father, Gaspare Diziani, was a prominent rococo artist who painted canvases ...

, painted interior and exterior vedute of mainly Venice. He died in Venice.

Public Works

Diziani's "The Sacrifice of Isaac" was displayed at the

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in an exhibition titled "Curators at Work III" from April 26, 2013 - June 23, 2013

References

Artnet biography from Grove encyclopedia
* * Domenico Sedini
Gaspare Diziani
, online catalogu
Artgate
by

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, 2010, CC BY-SA.

External links

''Italian Paintings, Venetian School''
a collection catalog containing information about Diziani and his works (see index; plate 24).

Other projects

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