Gaspare Diziani (Belluno 1689 – Venice 1767) – Clash between soldiers and brigands.

Gaspare Diziani (Belluno 1689 – Venice 1767) – Clash between soldiers and brigands.

112 x 98 cm without frame, 126.5 x 112.5 cm with frame.

Antique oil painting on canvas, in a carved and gilded wooden frame.

– The painting is certainly attributed to the hand of Gaspare Diziani (Belluno 1689 – Venice 1767) on the basis of stylistic comparisons (see the version of the same subject formerly in the Orsi collection, Milan (70 x 100 cm) and the version formerly in the Dorothem, Vienna (94 x 128 cm) published by Egidio Martini (Arte Documento, 2022).

Condition report: Good state of conservation of the painted surface, except for restorations due to use.

Gaspare Diziani (Belluno 1689 – Venice 1767) was a painter and set designer from Belluno who moved to Venice where he became one of the leading figures of lagoon Rococo art during the first half of the eighteenth century. He trained under the guidance of Gregorio Lazzarini, but it was Sebastiano Ricci who inspired him most to develop his unmistakable style, characterized by a lively and brilliant color, accompanied by a constant rapid and full-bodied application of paint.

Diziani mainly created religious, mythological and historical representations, but here we find him involved in a different theme, which he particularly loved given the numerous versions that have come down to us, namely the Assault of the brigands. The theme of the brigands was explored by various artists between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (including Salvator Rosa, Marco Ricci and Francesco Simonini) and was inspired by real criminal events that occurred in those times during journeys through woods and solitary places. Gaspare tried his hand at this genre together with his son Antonio, a painter of landscapes and caricatures, with whom he often collaborated and who passed on to him the use of warm colours and dynamism of the compositions.

Our painting, unlike the other known versions, develops vertically but takes up the typical composition invented by Diziani with the soldiers on the left in the act of shooting at the band of brigands on horseback who are coming towards them (see the horizontal painting formerly in the Orsi collection, Milan (70 x 100 cm) and the version formerly in the Dorothem, Vienna (94 x 128 cm) published by Egidio Martini in the essay dedicated to the theme in Arte Documento, 2002.

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