Gaspare Diziani (1689 – 17 August 1767)

• Was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque or Roccoco period.
• Diziani was active mainly in the Veneto but also in Dresden and Munich.
• 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.
• 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.
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