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Dionysio Miseroni

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Portrait of the gem-cutter Dionysio Miseroni and his family, by Karel Škréta, 1653

Dionysio Miseroni von Lison (1607, Prague – 1661, Vienna) was a Bohemian jeweller and gemstonecutter and glascutter.

Biography

Emerald Unguentarium, commissioned by emperor Ferdinand II and produced in Prague in 1641; part of Austrian Crown Jewels

He was the son of the stonecutter Ottavio Miseroni from Lison near Milano, who settled in Prague and founded a gamstone mill in Prague - Bubeneč. He succeeded his father and became a gemstonecutter and Imperial Treasure Warden in the Prague Castle. He moved to Vienna after Ferdinand III died, and was succeeded in his workshop by his son Ferdinand Eusebius Miseroni.[1]

Works

  • Saltcontainer, cut emerald in gold, Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna
  • Baptismal swt of lapis lazuli
  • Cameos

References

  1. ^ Dionysio Miseroni biography in the Web Gallery of Art