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.
Dröm av Aesculapius
c. 1710 Olja på segelduk. 62 x 101 cm Galleri dell~Accademia. Venedig
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