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.
Moses Defending the Daughters of Jethro
1720s
Oil on canvas, 114 x 178 cm
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
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