Dionysio Miseroni

Gem artist from Bohemia
The basics

Quick Facts

IntroGem artist from Bohemia
PlacesAustria
wasArtist
Work fieldArts
Gender
Male
Birth1607, Prague, Czech Republic
Death1661Vienna, Austria (aged 54 years)
Family
Father:Ottavio Miseroni
Children:Ferdinand Eusebius Miseroni
The details

Biography

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

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.

Works

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