RICCI, Sebastiano Italian painter, Venetian school (b. 1659, Belluno, d. 1734, Venezia).Painter and draughtsman. He painted light and colourful religious, historical and mythological subjects with a fluid, painterly touch. His rediscovery of Paolo Veronese, whose settings and costumes he borrowed, was important to later Venetian painters. Sebastiano was an itinerant artist, celebrated throughout Europe.
RICCI, Sebastiano Bacchus and Ariadne c. 1713
Oil on canvas, 189 x 104 cm
Chiswick House, London
Allegory of France as Minerva or Wisdom Who Treads Ignorance Underfoot and Crowns Martial Virtue (mk05) 1718
Canvas 44 1/2 x 33 1/2''(113 x 85 cm)Reception Picture at the Academie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture Transferred to the Louvre in the Revolution INV Painting ID:: 20641
RICCI, Sebastiano Allegory of France as Minerva or Wisdom Who Treads Ignorance Underfoot and Crowns Martial Virtue (mk05) 1718
Canvas 44 1/2 x 33 1/2''(113 x 85 cm)Reception Picture at the Academie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture Transferred to the Louvre in the Revolution INV
Jove and Semele mk65
Oil on canvas
75 3/16x59 7/16in
Uffizi
Painting ID:: 28901
Italian painter, Venetian school (b. 1659, Belluno, d. 1734, Venezia).Painter and draughtsman. He painted light and colourful religious, historical and mythological subjects with a fluid, painterly touch. His rediscovery of Paolo Veronese, whose settings and costumes he borrowed, was important to later Venetian painters. Sebastiano was an itinerant artist, celebrated throughout Europe.