1. Sebastiano Ricci was an Italian Baroque painter of the late Baroque period in Venetian painting.
18 Facts About Sebastiano Ricci
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Sebastiano Ricci was the uncle of Marco Ricci, who trained with him, and became an innovator in landscape painting.
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Sebastiano Ricci was born in Belluno, the son of Andreana and Livio Ricci.
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Indiscretion at a young age in 1678 resulted in an unintended pregnancy and, later, a bigger scandal when Ricci was charged with trying to poison the young woman in question to avoid marriage.
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Sebastiano Ricci was imprisoned, and released only after the intervention of a nobleman, probably a Pisani family member.
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Sebastiano Ricci eventually married the mother of his child in 1691, although this was a stormy union.
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Sebastiano Ricci's painting style there was apparently influenced by Giovanni Gioseffo dal Sole.
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Apparently in 1688, Sebastiano Ricci abandoned his wife and daughter, and fled from Bologna to Turin with Magdalen, the daughter of the painter Giovanni Peruzzini.
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Sebastiano Ricci was again imprisoned, and nearly executed, but was eventually freed by the intercession of the Duke of Parma.
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Sebastiano Ricci was to influence the Florentine Rococo fresco painter Giovanni Domenico Ferretti.
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In 1711, now painting alongside his nephew, Marco Sebastiano Ricci, he painted two canvases: Esther to Assuero and Moses saved from the Nile, for the Taverna Palace.
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Sebastiano Ricci decorated the chapel at Bulstrode House near Gerrards Cross for Henry Bentinck, 1st Duke of Portland with a cycle of wall-paintings depicting scenes from the life of Christ.
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Sebastiano Ricci designed stained glass for the Duke of Chandos' chapel at Cannons.
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Sebastiano Ricci returned to Venice in 1718 a wealthy man, and bought comfortable lodgings in the Old Procuratory of St Mark.
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From 1724 to 1729, Sebastiano Ricci worked intensely for the Royal House of Savoy in Turin.
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Sebastiano Ricci's style developed a following among other Venetian artists, influencing Francesco Polazzo, Gaspare Diziani, Francesco Migliori, Gaetano Zompini, and Francesco Fontebasso.
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Sebastiano Ricci made many copies from the works of Paolo Veronese, both of individual heads and of whole compositions.
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Sebastiano Ricci painted a supposed portrait of Andrea Palladio, attributed to Veronese and engraved by Bernard Picart for the frontispiece of the first English edition of Palladio's Four Books of Architecture.