Gaspare Diziani, Figurative Scene, 1700s, Oil Painting

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Gaspare Diziani (Belluno, 1689 – Venice, 1767) Venus with cupid, boat and fishermen putti Oil on canvas, without frame cm. … more Gaspare Diziani (Belluno, 1689 – Venice, 1767) Venus with cupid, boat and fishermen putti Oil on canvas, without frame cm. 50 x 98 - with frame cm. 64 x 112 Cassette frame in gilded, carved and sculpted wood Expertise by Ugo Ruggeri The narrative of our canvas opens in a delightful and serene marine scene in which Venus, gently lying in the foreground, elegantly extends her hand to a graceful cupid. In the background we find a group of fishermen intent on setting out to sea with their boat. The work has been attributed with certainty to the hand of Gaspare Diziani, a fine painter and protagonist of the eighteenth-century lagoon artistic panorama. less