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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.
St Pius, St Thomas of Aquino and St Peter Martyr
1730-33
Oil on canvas, 343 x 169 cm
S. Maria del Rosario (Gesuati), Venice
Venus and Adonis
1705-06
Oil on canvas, 70 x 40 cm
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Orléans
