1748
ink
paper
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
The Fall of Phaeton is a 1748 ink by Gaspare Diziani, a Baroque work, depicting Chariot, held at National Gallery of Art.
A boy falls headfirst from a golden chariot in a swirl of ink and chalk. Zeus raises his arm, ready to strike with lightning. Dark clouds loom above the scene. This is a sketch for a painting, not the final work. It shows how artists planned big scenes before adding color. The lines are quick and confident, like someone thinking on paper. Look up cross-hatching to see how Diziani used layered lines to shade.
Gaspare Diziani (1689 – 17 August 1767) was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque or Roccoco period, active mainly in the Republic of Venice but also in Dresden and Munich.
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