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Dawn

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 507

This painting crowns the sumptuous, immersive interior of a bedroom that was once part of the Segredo family’s palace, which still stands along Venice’s Grand Canal. Many parts of the palace were dismantled and sold in the early twentieth century, when this room entered The Met’s collection. Stuccoists Abbondio Stazio (1633–1745) and Carpoforo Mazzetti Tencalla (1685–1743) probably completed the three-dimensional frame in the 1720s, though Diziani may not have supplied his painting until the 1750s. His allegorical depiction of Dawn was perfectly suited to the room’s function, and her attendant putti echoed the stucco figures that seem to hold the canvas aloft.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Dawn
  • Artist: Gaspare Diziani (Italian, Belluno 1689–1767 Venice)
  • Medium: Oil on canvas
  • Dimensions: 78 x 94 1/2 in. (198.1 x 240 cm)
  • Classification: Paintings
  • Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1906
  • Object Number: 06.1335.1b
  • Curatorial Department: European Paintings

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Glorification of the Widmann Family, Gaspare Diziani Italian, Pen and gray ink, gray wash, over black chalk
Glorification of the Widmann Family
Gaspare Diziani
ca. 1755
Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane, Gaspare Diziani Italian, Pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash, over red chalk
Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane
Gaspare Diziani
18th century
The Good Samaritan, Gaspare Diziani Italian, Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, highlighted with white, on beige paper; framing lines in pen and brown ink
The Good Samaritan
Gaspare Diziani
1689–1767
Hercules and Omphale, Gaspare Diziani Italian, Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over red chalk; squared in black chalk
Hercules and Omphale
Gaspare Diziani
1689–1767
Design for a Ceiling: Venice Receiving Homage, Gaspare Diziani Italian, Pen and black ink, brush and gray-green and blue-gray wash, over black chalk
Design for a Ceiling: Venice Receiving Homage
Gaspare Diziani
1755–60

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