Gaspare Diziani
Paintings
Alexander and Diogenes
The Scourging of Christ
Alexander the Great
King David and Ahiphotel
Saint John the Baptist
The Abduction of Helen
King David and AhiphotelAlexander the Great
Diana Reclining in a Landscape
The Family of Darius before Alexander the Great
Hercules and Omphale
Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane
The Fall of Phaeton
The Family of Darius before Alexander
The Sacrifice of Isaac
Christ on the Mount of Olives
Diana and Endymion
The Martyrdom of Saints Felix and Fortunatus
An Angelic Minstrel Appears to Saint Francis
The Virgin Entrusting the Christ Child to Saint Francis of Assisi
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Alexander the Great
Gaspare Diziani (1689 – 17 August 1767) was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque or Roccoco period, active mainly in the Veneto but also in Dresden and Munich.
Biography
His earliest training was in his native town of Belluno with Antonio Lazzarini. He then moved to Venice, to the studio of Gregorio Lazzarini and later that of Sebastiano Ricci. His career largely overlapped with Lazzarini and Ricci's fellow pupil, Giambattista Tiepolo, 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 Venice. 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 opera in Venice, Munich (1717), and later in Dresden, in conjunction with Alessandro Mauro. Diziani was invited to Rome by Cardinal Ottoboni in 1726, to paint a "magnificent decoration for the church of San Lorenzo in Damaso". This work is now known only through an engraving by Claude Vasconi.
The Sala dei Pastelli in Ca' Rezzonico has a sotto in su allegorical ceiling fresco of The Triumph of Poetry (Poetry surrounded by Painting, Architecture, Music and Sculpture).
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[1] 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.
His pupils included Pietro Edwards and Jacopo Marieschi (1711–1794). His son, Antonio Diziani, painted interior and exterior vedute of mainly Venice. He died in Venice.
References
Artnet biography from Grove encyclopedia
Bryan, Michael (1886). Robert Edmund Graves, ed. Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical (Volume I: A-K). York St. #4, Covent Garden, London; Original from Fogg Library, Digitized May 18, 2007: George Bell and Sons. pp. page 415.
Lanzi, Luigi. The History of Painting in Italy from the Period of the Revival of the Fine Arts (1853)H.G. Bohn; page 305
Domenico Sedini, Gaspare Diziani, online catalogue Artgate by Fondazione Cariplo, 2010, CC BY-SA.
External Links
Italian Paintings, Venetian School, a collection catalog containing information about Diziani and his works (see index; plate 24).
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