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Baroque and Rococo
Sebastiano Ricci
Sebastiano Ricci(b Belluno, bapt 1 Aug 1659; d Venice, 15 May 1734).
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.
Altar of St Gregory the Great
Oil on canvas
Basilica di S. Giustina, Padua
Madonna and Child with Saints
1708
Oil on canvas, 406 x 208 cm
San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice
