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 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. 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
