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Sebastiano Ricci (1 August 165915 May 1734) was an
Italian painter Following is a list of Italian painters (in alphabetical order) who are notable for their art. A * Niccolò dell'Abbate (1509/12–1571) * Giuseppe Abbati (1836–1868) * Angiolo Achini (1850–1930) * Pietro Adami (c. 1730) *Livio Agresti ...
of the late
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school of Venice. About the same age as Piazzetta, and an elder contemporary of
Tiepolo Giovanni Battista Tiepolo ( , ; March 5, 1696 – March 27, 1770), also known as Giambattista (or Gianbattista) Tiepolo, was an Italian painter and printmaker from the Republic of Venice who painted in the Rococo style, considered an import ...
, he represents a late version of the vigorous and luminous Cortonesque style of grand manner fresco painting. He was the uncle of
Marco Ricci Marco Ricci (6 June 1676 – 21 January 1730) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. Early years He was born at Belluno and received his first instruction in art from his uncle, Sebastiano Ricci, likely in Milan in 1694–6.Giacometti, Mar ...
(1676 – 1730), who trained with him, and became an innovator in
landscape painting Landscape painting, also known as landscape art, is the depiction of natural scenery such as mountains, valleys, trees, rivers, and forests, especially where the main subject is a wide view—with its elements arranged into a coherent composi ...
.


Early years

He was born in
Belluno Belluno (; lld, Belum; vec, Belùn) is a town and province in the Veneto region of northern Italy. Located about north of Venice Venice ( ; it, Venezia ; vec, Venesia or ) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the ...
, the son of Andreana and Livio Ricci. In 1671, he was apprenticed to Federico Cervelli of Venice. Others claim Ricci's first master was
Sebastiano Mazzoni Sebastiano Mazzoni (c. 1611 - Venice, 22 April 1678) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. Born in Florence, he trained in that city during 1632-33 in the studio of Baccio del Bianco. He then moved to Venice in 1648, and stayed there t ...
. In 1678, a youthful indiscretion led to an unwanted pregnancy, and ultimately to a greater scandal, when Ricci was accused of attempting to poison the young woman in question to avoid marriage. He was imprisoned, and released only after the intervention of a nobleman, probably a
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member. He eventually married the mother of his child in 1691, although this was a stormy union. Following his release he moved to Bologna, where he lived near the Parish of San Michele del Mercato. His painting style there was apparently influenced by
Giovanni Gioseffo dal Sole Giovanni Gioseffo dal Sole (10 December 1654 – 22 July 1719) was an Italian painter and engraver from Bologna, active in the late-Baroque period. Upon the death of Carlo Cignani, Gioseffo dal Sole became among the most prominent painters in Bol ...
. On 28 September 1682 he was contracted by the "Fraternity of Saint John of Florence" to paint a ''Decapitation of John the Baptist'' for their oratory. On 9 December 1685, the Count of San Secondo near Parma commissioned the decoration of the ''Oratorio della Beata Vergine del Serraglio'', which Ricci completed in collaboration of Ferdinando Galli-Bibiena by October 1687, receiving a payment of 4,482 Lira. In 1686, the Duke Ranuccio II Farnese of Parma commissioned a ''Pietà'' for a new Capuchin convent. In 1687-8 Ricci decorated the apartments of the Parmense Duchess in Piacenza with canvases recounting the life of the Farnese pope, Paul III.


Turin and return to Venice

Apparently in 1688, Ricci abandoned his wife and daughter, and fled from Bologna to Turin with Magdalen, the daughter of the painter
Giovanni Peruzzini Giovanni Peruzzini (1629–1694) was an Italian painter of the Baroque. His father, Domenico Peruzzini was also a painter. Giovanni was born in Ancona, and became a pupil of Simone Cantarini. In Ancona, he painted a ''Beheading of St. John'' fo ...
. He was again imprisoned, and nearly executed, but was eventually freed by the intercession of the Duke of Parma. The duke employed him and assigned him a monthly salary of 25 crowns and lodging in the Farnese palace in Rome. In 1692, he was commissioned to copy the ''Coronation of Charlemagne'' by Raphael in Vatican City, on behalf of Louis XIV, a task he finished only by 1694. The death of the Duke Ranuccio in December, 1694, who was also his protector, forced Ricci to abandon Rome for Milan, where by November 1695 he completed frescoes in the Ossuary Chapel of the Church of San Bernardino dei Morti. On 22 June 1697, the Count Giacomo Durini hired him to paint in the
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. In 1698, he returned to the Venetian republic for a decade. By 24 August 1700, he had frescoed the chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento in the church of Santa Giustina of Padua. In 1701, the Venetian geographer
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commissioned a canvas of the ''Ascension'' that was inserted into the ceiling of sacristy of the Basilica of the Santi Apostoli in Rome. In 1702, he frescoed the ceiling of the Blue Hall in the
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, with the ''Allegory of the Princely Virtues'' and ''Love of Virtue'', which illustrated the education and dedication of future emperor
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. In Vienna, Frederick August II, the elector Saxony, requested an ''Ascension'' canvas, in part to convince others of the sincerity of his conversion to Catholicism, which allowed him to become the King of Poland. In Venice in 1704 he executed a canvas of ''San Procolo (Saint Proculus)'' for the Dome of
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and a ''Crucifixion'' for the Florentine church of San Francisco de Macci.


Florentine frescoes

In the summer of 1706, he traveled to Florence, where he completed a work that is by many considered his masterpieces. During his Florentine stay he first completed a large fresco series on allegorical and mythological theme

for the now-called ''Marucelli-Fenzi'' or '' Palazzo Fenzi'' (now housing departments of University of Florence). After this work, Ricci, along with the quadraturista Giuseppe Tonelli, was commissioned by the Grand Duke Ferdinando de' Medici to decorate rooms in the Pitti Palace, where his ''Venus takes Leave from Adonis'' contains heavenly depictions that are airier and brighter than prior Florentine fresco series. These works gained him fame and requests from foreign lands and showed the rising influence of Venetian painting into other regions of Italy. He was to influence the Florentine Rococo fresco painter Giovanni Domenico Ferretti. In 1708 he returned to Venice, completing a ''Madonna with the Child'' for
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. In 1711, now painting alongside his nephew,
Marco Ricci Marco Ricci (6 June 1676 – 21 January 1730) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. Early years He was born at Belluno and received his first instruction in art from his uncle, Sebastiano Ricci, likely in Milan in 1694–6.Giacometti, Mar ...
, he painted two canvases: ''Esther to Assuero'' and ''Moses saved from the Nile'', for the Taverna Palace.


London and Paris

He ultimately accepted foreign patronage in London, when he was provided a £770 commission by
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for eight canvases, to be completed by him and his nephew Marco, depicting mythological frolics: ''Cupid and Jove'', ''Bacchus meets Ariadne'', ''Diana and Nymphs'', ''Bacchus and Ariadne'', ''Venus and Cupid'', ''Diane and Endymion'', and a ''Cupid and Flora''. He decorated the chapel at Bulstrode House near Gerrards Cross for
Henry Bentinck, 1st Duke of Portland Henry Bentinck, 1st Duke of Portland (17 March 1682 – 4 July 1726), of Titchfield, Hampshire, styled Viscount Woodstock from 1689 until 1709, was a British Whig politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons from 1705 until 170 ...
with a cycle of wall-paintings depicting scenes from the life of Christ. George Vertue described the scheme as "a Noble free invention. great force of lights and shade, with variety & freedom, in the composition of the parts". The chapel was demolished in the 19th century, but oil '' modelli'' still exist. Ricci also designed stained glass for the Duke of Chandos' chapel at
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. In c.1710-15 Ricci painted the apse in the chapel at the Royal Hospital Chelsea of the resurrection. By the end of 1716, with his nephew, he left England for Paris, where he met
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, and submitted his ''Triumph of the Wisdom over Ignorance'' in order to gain admission to the Royal French Academy of Painting and Sculpture, which was granted on 18 May 1718. He returned to Venice in 1718 a wealthy man, and bought comfortable lodgings in the Old Procuratory of St. Mark. That same year, the Riccis decorated the villa of
Giovanni Francesco Bembo Giovanni Francesco Bembo was an Italian Renaissance painter from Cremona, mainly active from 1515 to 1543. He apprenticed with Boccaccio Boccaccino. In 1515, he painted two frescoes: ''Presentation in the Temple'' and an ''Adoration of the Magi'' ...
in Belvedere, near
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. In 1722 he was one of twelve artists commissioned to contribute a painting on canvas of one of the apostles as part of a decorative scheme at the church of St Stae in Venice. The other artists involved included Tiepolo, Piazetti, and Pellegrini.


Last years

From 1724 to 1729, Ricci worked intensely for the Royal House of Savoy in Turin: In 1724 he painted the ''Rejection of Agar'' and the ''Silenus adores the Idols'', in 1725, the ''Madonna in Gloria'', in Turin in 1726, he completed the ''Susanna presented to Daniel'' and ''Moses causes water to gush from the rock''. In October 1727 he was admitted to the
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of Venice. Ricci's style developed a following among other Venetian artists, influencing Francesco Polazzo,
Gaspare Diziani Gaspare Diziani (1689 – 17 August 1767) was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque or Roccoco period, active mainly in the Veneto but also in Dresden and Munich. The artist's canvas is the largest painting of the Hermitage Museum in St. Peters ...
,
Francesco Migliori Francesco Migliori, also known as Francesco Megliori (c. 1684 -1734) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in his native Republic of Venice. Biography His training is not known, though an adherence to the style of the ''tene ...
,
Gaetano Zompini Gaetano Zompini (25 September 1700 – 20 May 1778) was an Italian printmaker and engraver, known for his prints depicting workers from the lower classes in Venice. Born in Nervesa della Battaglia, he apprenticed with Niccolò Bambini. He al ...
, and
Francesco Fontebasso ''Allegory of Faith'' (v.1750) San Zanipolo Venice Francesco Fontebasso (4 October 1707 – 31 May 1769) was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque or Rococo period of Venice. He first apprenticed with Sebastiano Ricci, but was strongly influen ...
(1709–1769). He died in Venice on 15 May 1734.


Veronese copies

Ricci made many copies from the works of Paolo Veronese, both of individual heads and of whole compositions. Some of these copies of heads were bought by George III. The king also bought a painting of the ''Finding of Moses'' which his agent, Joseph Smith, claimed was a Veronese, although this too had been painted by Ricci, either as a pastiche of Veronese's style, or a copy of a work now lost. Ricci painted a supposed portrait of
Andrea Palladio Andrea Palladio ( ; ; 30 November 1508 – 19 August 1580) was an Italian Renaissance architect active in the Venetian Republic. Palladio, influenced by Roman and Greek architecture, primarily Vitruvius, is widely considered to be one of th ...
, attributed to Veronese and engraved by
Bernard Picart Bernard Picart or Picard (11 June 1673 – 8 May 1733), was a French draughtsman, engraver, and book illustrator in Amsterdam, who showed an interest in cultural and religious habits. Life Picart was born in rue Saint-Jacques, Paris a ...
for the frontispiece of the first English edition (1715) of Palladio's '' Four Books of Architecture''. According to
Rudolf Wittkower Rudolf Wittkower (22 June 1901 – 11 October 1971) was a British art historian specializing in Italian Renaissance and Baroque art and architecture, who spent much of his career in London, but was educated in Germany, and later moved to the Unite ...
, it does not depict Palladio, but rather is entirely the invention of Ricci.Nash 1999, pp. 1347–1349; Wittkower 1974, p. 82, cited by Nash.


Critical assessments

"Ricci, leaning at first on the example of splendid art of the
Veronese Veronese is the Italian word denoting someone or something from Verona, Italy and may refer to: * Veronese Riddle, a popular riddle in the Middle Ages * ''Veronese'' (moth), a moth genus in the family Crambidae * Monte Veronese, an Italian chees ...
, made a new ideal prevail, one of clear and rich coloristic beauty: in this he paved the way for
Tiepolo Giovanni Battista Tiepolo ( , ; March 5, 1696 – March 27, 1770), also known as Giambattista (or Gianbattista) Tiepolo, was an Italian painter and printmaker from the Republic of Venice who painted in the Rococo style, considered an import ...
. The painting of figures of the
Roccoco Rococo (, also ), less commonly Roccoco or Late Baroque, is an exceptionally ornamental and theatrical style of architecture, art and decoration which combines asymmetry, scrolling curves, gilding, white and pastel colours, sculpted moulding, ...
to Venice remains incomprehensible in its evolution without Ricci... Tiepolo germinated the work started by Ricci to such a richness and splendor that it leaves Ricci in the shadows... although Sebastiano is recognized in the combative role of forerunner "(Derschau). "He is the master of a resurrected-fifteenth century style, whose painterly features are enriched with nervous express and, typically 17th century" (
Rudolf Wittkower Rudolf Wittkower (22 June 1901 – 11 October 1971) was a British art historian specializing in Italian Renaissance and Baroque art and architecture, who spent much of his career in London, but was educated in Germany, and later moved to the Unite ...
). Wittkower in his Anthology, contrasts the facile luminous style of Ricci with the darker, more emotional intense painting of Piazzetta. Like Tiepolo, Ricci was an international artist; Piazzetta was local. "We perceive in him that synthesis of the
baroque The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including th ...
decorativeness and individualized and substantial painting, that we will see later again in Tiepolo. On one side the influence of
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, directed and indirect, and on the other the observant painting of the hermit Magnasco; more intense, substantial and freed academic impulses, the airy, shining influences become, to the open air, magical coves, as well as gloomy corners. A new synthesis that opened wide new painting horizons, even if the scene is not that of a ballet, it is felt like bing in the wonders of the color, in more vibrating, acute, agile accents "(Moschini). "At the start of the Baroque..Venetians remained isolated from the outside…from the great ideas of the baroque painting… The Ricci are the first traveling Venetian painters... and succeed to inaugurate the so-called roccoco rooms of Pitti and Marucelli palaces."(
Roberto Longhi Roberto Longhi (28 December 1890 – 3 June 1970) was an Italian academic, art historian, and curator. The main subjects of his studies were the painters Caravaggio and Piero della Francesca. Early life and career Longhi was born in December 18 ...
). Ricci "brought back in the Venetian tradition a wealth of chromatic expression resolved in a new vibrating brilliance brightness…by means of the intelligent interpretation of the Veronese chromatics and of the brushstrokes of a Magnasco-like touch, from the 16th century impediments, he takes unfashionable positions against "tenebrous styles", is against the new Piazzetta –
Federico Bencovich upright 1.2, ''Saint Andrew among the Saints Batholomew, Carlo Borromeo, Lucy and Apollonia'', ca. 1710–1716 Federico Bencovich (1667 – 8 July 1753) was a late Baroque painter from Dalmatia working in Italy. He is best known as ''Federico Ben ...
. He supplied a valid painterly idiom for ... Tiepolo to use after his defection from the Piazzettism "(Pallucchini). "Venice, still more than Naples, collects the Ricci inheritance of the prodigioso trade of Luca Giordano... Sebastiano throws again it, widens he then, refines it for the school of
Sebastiano Mazzoni Sebastiano Mazzoni (c. 1611 - Venice, 22 April 1678) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. Born in Florence, he trained in that city during 1632-33 in the studio of Baccio del Bianco. He then moved to Venice in 1648, and stayed there t ...
"(Argan)


Works

*''Portrait of a Bishop'', Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum, Insbruck *''Mercy'' (1686), New Church of the Capuchins, Parma *''Frescoes'' in collaboration with Bibiena, (1687) Sacristy of the Fallen in Church of Santo Segundo, Parma *''History'' and ''Apotheosis of Paul III'' (1687–1688), Farnese Palace, now Pinacoteca Civica, Piacenza *''Guardian Angel'' (1694), Chiesa del Carmine, Pavia *''Frescoes'' (1695), Church of San Bernardino alle Ossa, Milan *''Ecstasy of St Francis'' (ca 1695–96),
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, Duluth, Minnesota *''Last Supper'' (ca 1720), Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas *''Frescoes''(1697),
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*''Communion of St Maria Egiziaca'' (1698), Archconfraternity of the Duomo of the Santa Sindone, Milan *''St Gregory the Great intercedes with Madonna'' (1700), Church of Santa Giustina, Padua *''Frescoes'' (1700), Church of Santa Giustina, Padua *''Ascension'' (1701), Santi Apostoli, Rome *''Allegory of the princely virtues'' (1702),
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, Vienna *''Assumption of Virgin'' (1702) Gemäldegalerie, Dresden *''Crucifixion with Virgin, John the Evangelist and Carlo Borromeo'' (1704), Uffizi, Florence *''Procolo, Peasant Detention'' (1704), Duomo, Bergamo) *''Vision of St. Bruno'' (1705

*Frescoes (1706–1707), Palazzi Palazzo Fenzi, Fenzi Marucelli & Pitti, Florence *''Madonna with Child'' (1708),
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, Venic

*''Family of Darius before Alexander'' & ''Continence of Scipio'' (ca 1709),
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, Raleigh *''
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'' (1710), Trescore Balneario, Bergamo, church of Saint Peter)(San Sta

*''Christ giving the keys to St Peter'' & ''Call of St Peter'' (1710), Church of Saint Pietro, Bergamo, San Pietro, Bergamo *''Assumption'' (1710),
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) *''Esther before Ahasuerus'' (1711),
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, Rome *''Moses saved from the waters'' (1711) *''Sacred Family with Elizabeth and John'' (1712), Royal Collections, London *''Frescoes for Burlington House'' (1712–1714), London **''Cupid before Jove''; ''Encounter of Bacchus and Ariadne''; and ''Triumph of Galatea'' *''Frescoes for
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'' (1712–14), London **''Bacchus and Ariadne'' (National Galler

**''Venus and Cupid'', ''Diana and Endymion'', ''Cupid and Flora'', and ''Diana and Nymphs'' *'' Endymion (mythology), Selene & Endymion'' (1713), London *''The Resurrection'' (1714), Royal Hospital Chelsea, London *''Triumph of Wisdom over Ignorance'' (1718), Louvre, Paris *''Head of Woman'' (1718), fresco fragment, Civic Museum, Belluno *'' Bathsheba at her Bath'' (1724), Szépművészeti Múzeum, Budapest *
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, Turin **''Repudiation of Agar'' and ''Solomon adores the Idols'' (1724) **''Madonna in Glory with archangel Gabriel and Saints Eusebio, Sebastiano & Rocco'' (1725) **''Susanna in front of Daniel'' and ''Moses make water gush from the rock'' (1726) **''Magdalen applies ointment to Christ's feet'' (1728) *'' Apotheosis of Saint Sebastian'' (circa 1725), Musée des Beaux-Arts, Strasbourg *''St Cajetan heals the Sick'' (1727),
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, Milan *''Ecstasy of St. Teresa'', (1727, Church of St Jerome (now St Mark), Vicenza) * Royal Palace, Turin **''Hagar in the desert''; ''Jacob blesses the sons of Joseph''; ''Moses saved from waters''; and ''Rebecca and Eliazer at the well'' (1727) *''Christ and the Centurions'' and ''Wedding at Cannae'', (1729), Capodimonte Museum, Naples *''Communion and Martyrdom of St Lucia'' (1730), Church of Santa Lucia, Parma *''Immaculate Conception'' (1730), Church of San Vitale, Venice *''Madonna in Glory with Child and Angel Guardian'', (1730) Scuola of the Guardian Angel, Venice *''Prayer in Garden'', (1730), Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienn

*Self-portrait (1731), Uffizi Gallery *''Pope Gregory the Great intercedes with Virgin'' (1731), Sant'Alessandro della Croce, Bergamo *''Pope Gregory the Great intercedes for souls in Purgatory'', (1733), Saint Gervais, Paris *''Pope Pio V, Saints Thomas Acquinus, & Peter Martyr'' (1733),
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, Venice *''St Francis from resuscitates child Paola'' and ''St Helen discovers True Cross'', San Rocco Church, Venice *''Baldassarre'' and ''Ester before Ahasuerus'' (1733),
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, Rome *''Assumption'' (1734)
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, Vienna


References


Sources

*Free translation from Italian Wikipedia entry * * Nash, Paul W.; Savage, Nicholas (1999). ''Early Printed Books 1478–1840: Catalogue of the British Architectural Library, Early Imprints Collection''. London: Bowker-Saur. . * Rizzi, Aldo. ''Sebastiano Ricci disegnatore'', Electa – Milano 1975 * Rizzi, Aldo. ''Sebastiano Ricci'', Electa – Milano 1989 * Wittkower, Rudolf (1974). ''Palladio and English Palladianism''. London: Thames and Hudson. . *


External links

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