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.
ID: 8923 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
