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DOI Artikel:Białostocki, Jan; Diziani, Gaspare [Ill.]: Pictures by Gaspare Diziani in Poland
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.17136#0042
7. Cianantonio Guardi, 'Jacob Asking Laban for the Hand of Rahel, Waraaw, National
Museum.
striking similarities (fig. 4). We fi:id therc the same close jjoint of view, the same stone slabs
of the pavemeat rej>resented in a (not vcry correct) foreshortening, the same kiiul of dramatic
gesturcs — as i:i our Moses picture. The same type of a:i old man appears as Jacob in the Feltre
work, as Abraham or as Loth in Cracow and as Pharaoh in Warsaw. The links, which connect
the whole group lead to assume that at least three pictures in Poland might have possibly formed
a series and that they might have been painted by Diziani in the thirtics, when — after the
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Museum.
striking similarities (fig. 4). We fi:id therc the same close jjoint of view, the same stone slabs
of the pavemeat rej>resented in a (not vcry correct) foreshortening, the same kiiul of dramatic
gesturcs — as i:i our Moses picture. The same type of a:i old man appears as Jacob in the Feltre
work, as Abraham or as Loth in Cracow and as Pharaoh in Warsaw. The links, which connect
the whole group lead to assume that at least three pictures in Poland might have possibly formed
a series and that they might have been painted by Diziani in the thirtics, when — after the
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