Design for a Ceiling: Venice Receiving Homage. Artist: Gaspare Diziani (Italian, Belluno 1689-1767 Venice). Dimensions: 11 7/8 x 8 1/16in. (30.2 x 20.5cm). Date: 1755-60.This dynamic composition, drawn in pen and ink and grey wash, has many points in common with the "Glorification of the Widmann Family", frescoed by Diziani on the ceiling of Palazzo Widmann, Venice, about 1755-1760. Banners and other military paraphernalia occur in this work, as do allegorical figures of Justice, Prudence, and Fame; putti support a tray of scrolls, and Time holds an empty shield flanked by an eagle, which may be emblematic of the Carinthian origins of the Widmann family. However, in the upper part of the fresco a winged figure crowns a representative of the family, while in the drawing a figure kneels before a personification of Venice.A group of stylistically coherent drawings by Diziani can be compared to the Museum's project for Palazzo Widmann: a pen sketch for the lower part of the present compo