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: 8913 Paul III Appointing His Son Pier Luigi to Duke of Piacenza and Parma dt c. 1687
Oil on canvas
Museo Civico, Palazzo Farnese, Piacenza
