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. Paul III Appointing His Son Pier Luigi to Duke of Piacenza and Parma dt c. 1687
Oil on canvas
Museo Civico, Palazzo Farnese, Piacenza
