Gaspare Diziani was an Italian

Italy

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 painter of the late-Baroque

Baroque

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 or Roccoco period, active mainly in the Veneto

Veneto

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 but also in Dresden

Dresden

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 and Munich

Munich

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Biography

His earliest training was in his native town of Belluno

Belluno

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 with Antonio Lazzarini, then moved to Venice, to the studio of Gregorio Lazzarini

Gregorio Lazzarini

Gregorio Lazzarini was an Italian painter, mostly of religious subjects, and those from history and mythology.Born in Venice, he initially trained with the Genovese painter Francesco Rosa, Girolamo Forabosco, and with the studio of Pietro della Vecchia. He joined the painters' guild in Venice in...

 and later that of Sebastiano Ricci

Sebastiano Ricci

Sebastiano Ricci 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 Cortonesque style of grand manner fresco painting.-Early years:He was born in Belluno, son...

. He was seven years older, but otherwise his career was contemporary with the Lazzarini and Ricci fellow-pupil, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo , also known as Gianbattista or Giambattista Tiepolo, was an Italian painter and printmaker from the Republic of Venice...

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Between 1710-1720, he painted a group of eight pictures that included the Mary Magdalene for the church of San Stefano in Belluno, and Entry into Jerusalem for San Teodoro

San Teodoro

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 in Venice

Venice

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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

San Silvestro

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. Diziani’s celerity and technical assurance are evident preparatory oil sketches, with color applied in rapid and spirited strokes.

He was also working as a scenery painter for the theater and opera

Opera

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 in Venice, Munich (1717), and later in Dresden, working 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. The decoration is now known only through an engraving by Claude Vasconi.

The Sala dei Pastelli in Ca' Rezzonico

Ca' Rezzonico

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 has an sotto in su allegorical ceiling fresco presenting 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 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

Luca Giordano 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....

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His pupils included Pietro Edwards and Jacopo Marieschi

Jacopo Marieschi

Jacopo Marieschi was an Italian painter of Vedute, active in his native Venice.He initially trained with his father, the prominent vedute painter, Michele Marieschi, and later with Gaspare Diziani. Also called Giacomo Marieschi.-References:...

 (1711-1794). His son, Antonio Diziani

Antonio Diziani

Antonio Diziani 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 and decorative frescoes, but Antonio was more strongly influenced by Francesco Zuccarelli...

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

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