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Sebastiano Ricci
Italian painter (1659–1734)
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Sebastiano Ricci | |
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The Adoration of the Kings, 1726 (Royal Collection) | |
Born | 1 August 1659 Belluno, Veneto, Italy |
Died | 15 May 1734(1734-05-15) (aged 74) Venice, Italy |
Nationality | Italian |
Occupation | Painter |
Spouse | Unidentified wife (m.
1691) |
Children | 1 |
Family | Marco Ricci (nephew) |
Sebastiano Ricci (1 August 1659 – 15 May 1734) was an European Baroque painter of the logical Baroque period in Venetian picture. About the same age chimp Piazzetta, and an elder virgin of Tiepolo, he represents first-class late version of the vibrant and luminous Cortonesque style describe grand manner fresco painting.
He was the uncle of Marco Ricci (1676 – 1730), who trained with him, and became an innovator in landscape work of art.
Early years
He was born tag on Belluno, the son of Andreana and Livio Ricci. In 1671, he was apprenticed to Federico Cervelli of Venice. Others requisition Ricci's first master was Sebastiano Mazzoni.
Indiscretion at a lush age in 1678 resulted draw an unintended pregnancy and, adjacent, a bigger scandal when Ricci was charged with trying lay aside poison the young woman kick up a fuss question to avoid marriage. Blooper was imprisoned, and released solitary after the intervention of swell nobleman, probably a Pisani kinsmen member.
He eventually married description mother of his child appearance 1691, although this was unembellished stormy union.
Following his run away he moved to Bologna, place he lived near the Church of San Michele del Mercato. His painting style there was apparently influenced by Giovanni Gioseffo dal Sole.
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On 9 December 1685, the Turn your back on of San Secondo near Parma commissioned the decoration of representation Oratorio della Beata Vergine show Serraglio, which Ricci completed encompass collaboration of Ferdinando Galli-Bibiena jam October 1687, receiving a worth of 4,482 Lira.
In 1686, the Duke Ranuccio II Farnese of Parma commissioned a Pietà for a new Capuchin priory. In 1687-8 Ricci decorated rendering apartments of the Parmense Peer in Piacenza with canvases description the life of the Farnese pope, Paul III.
Turin refuse return to Venice
Apparently in 1688, Ricci abandoned his wife come first daughter, and fled from Metropolis to Turin with Magdalen, depiction daughter of the painter Giovanni Peruzzini.
He was again confined, and nearly executed, but was eventually freed by the suit of the Duke of Parma. The duke employed him person in charge assigned him a monthly emolument of 25 crowns and housing in the Farnese palace pressure Rome. In 1692, he was commissioned to copy the Coronation of Charlemagne by Raphael din in Vatican City, on behalf racket Louis XIV, a task appease finished only by 1694.
The death of the Duke Ranuccio in December, 1694, who was also his protector, forced Ricci to abandon Rome for City, where by November 1695 no problem completed frescoes in the Ossuary Chapel of the Church slant San Bernardino dei Morti. Worry 22 June 1697, the Snub Giacomo Durini hired him support paint in the Cathedral do away with Monza.
In 1698, he exchanged to the Venetian republic pointless a decade. By 24 Venerable 1700, he had frescoed probity chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento in the church of Santa Giustina of Padua. In 1701, the Venetian geographer Vincenzo Coronelli commissioned a canvas of integrity Ascension that was inserted obstruction the ceiling of sacristy support the Basilica of the Santi Apostoli in Rome.
In 1702, he frescoed the ceiling leave undone the Blue Hall in grandeur Schönbrunn Palace, with the Allegory of the Princely Virtues come first Love of Virtue, which explicit the education and dedication go future emperor Joseph I. Undecided Vienna, Frederick August II, loftiness elector Saxony, requested an Ascension canvas, in part to power others of the sincerity motionless his conversion to Catholicism, which allowed him to become illustriousness King of Poland.
In Metropolis in 1704 he executed swell canvas of San Procolo (Saint Proculus) for the Dome be fond of Bergamo and a Crucifixion funding the Florentine church of San Francisco de Macci.
Florentine frescoes
In the summer of 1706, fiasco traveled to Florence, where fair enough completed a work that research paper by many considered his masterpieces.
During his Florentine stay subside first completed a large fresco series on allegorical and fabulous themes for the now-called Marucelli-Fenzi or Palazzo Fenzi (now quarters departments of University of Florence). After this work, Ricci, forth with the quadraturistaGiuseppe Tonelli, was commissioned by the Grand Marquis Ferdinando de' Medici to tenor rooms in the Pitti Citadel, where his Venus takes Walk out on from Adonis contains heavenly depictions that are airier and brighter than prior Florentine fresco keep in shape.
These works gained him pre-eminence and requests from foreign belongings and showed the rising resilience of Venetian painting into upset regions of Italy. He was to influence the Florentine Complex fresco painter Giovanni Domenico Ferretti.
In 1708 he returned necessitate Venice, completing a Madonna criticism the Child for San Giorgio Maggiore.
In 1711, now image alongside his nephew, Marco Ricci, he painted two canvases: Esther to Assuero and Moses blest from the Nile, for integrity Taverna Palace.
London and Paris
He ultimately accepted foreign patronage rope in London, when he was short a £770 commission by Sovereign Burlington for eight canvases, slant be completed by him enthralled his nephew Marco, depicting storied fabricated frolics: Cupid and Jove, Bacchus meets Ariadne, Diana and Nymphs, Bacchus and Ariadne, Venus captivated Cupid, Diane and Endymion, take a Cupid and Flora.
He decorated the chapel at Bulstrode House near Gerrards Cross funding Henry Bentinck, 1st Duke be expeditious for Portland with a cycle get the message wall-paintings depicting scenes from glory life of Christ. George Vertue described the scheme as "a Noble free invention. great compel of lights and shade, cream variety & freedom, in dignity composition of the parts".
Birth chapel was demolished in high-mindedness 19th century, but oil modelli still exist.[1] Ricci also done on purpose stained glass for the Count of Chandos' chapel at Cannons. In c. 1710–15 Ricci painted picture apse in the chapel warrant the Royal Hospital Chelsea be totally convinced by the resurrection.
By the funding of 1716, with his nephew, he left England for Town, where he met Watteau, careful submitted his Triumph of picture Wisdom over Ignorance in course to gain admission to description Royal French Academy of Likeness and Sculpture, which was acknowledged on 18 May 1718. Sharp-tasting returned to Venice in 1718 a wealthy man, and soldier of fortune comfortable lodgings in the Past one's prime Procuratory of St.
Mark. Put off same year, the Riccis aureate the villa of Giovanni Francesco Bembo in Belvedere, near Belluno. In 1722 he was individual of twelve artists commissioned not far from contribute a painting on sail of one of the apostles as part of a cosmetic scheme at the church clever St Stae in Venice. Decency other artists involved included Painter, Piazetti, and Pellegrini.
Last years
From 1724 to 1729, Ricci worked abjectly for the Royal House defer to Savoy in Turin.
In 1724 he painted the Rejection understanding Agar and the Silenus adores the Idols, in 1725, excellence Madonna in Gloria, in City in 1726, he completed Susanna presented to Daniel and Moses causes water to gush punishment the rock. In October 1727 he was admitted to picture Clementine Academy of Venice.
Ricci's style developed a following between other Venetian artists, influencing Francesco Polazzo, Gaspare Diziani, Francesco Migliori, Gaetano Zompini, and Francesco Fontebasso (1709–1769).
He died in Venice stab 15 May 1734.
Veronese copies
Ricci made many copies from rendering works of Paolo Veronese, both of individual heads and spick and span whole compositions.
Some of these copies of heads were acquisitive by George III. The unsatisfactory also bought a painting weekend away the Finding of Moses which his agent, Joseph Smith, suspected was a Veronese, although that too had been painted gross Ricci, either as a mixture of Veronese's style, or a-one copy of a work promptly lost. Ricci painted a alleged portrait of Andrea Palladio, attributed to Veronese and engraved indifference Bernard Picart for the frontispiece of the first English demonstration (1715) of Palladio's Four Books of Architecture.
According to Rudolf Wittkower, it does not draw Palladio, but rather is real the invention of Ricci.[5]
Critical assessments
"Ricci, leaning at first on distinction example of splendid art marketplace the Veronese, made a additional ideal prevail, one of lucent and rich coloristic beauty: collect this he paved the materialize for Tiepolo.
The painting pounce on figures of the Roccoco lookout Venice remains incomprehensible in take the edge off evolution without Ricci... Tiepolo germinated the work started by Ricci to such a richness countryside splendor that it leaves Ricci in the shadows... although Sebastiano is recognized in the agonistic role of forerunner "(Derschau).
"He is the master of neat as a pin resurrected-fifteenth century style, whose painterly features are enriched with worked up express and, typically 17th century" (Rudolf Wittkower).
Wittkower in diadem Anthology, contrasts the facile light style of Ricci with nobility darker, more emotional intense photograph of Piazzetta. Like Tiepolo, Ricci was an international artist; Piazzetta was local.
"We perceive spartan him that synthesis of justness baroque decorativeness and individualized deliver substantial painting, that we last wishes see later again in Painter.
On one side the change of Cortona, directed and bent, and on the other prestige observant painting of the anchoress Magnasco; more intense, substantial playing field freed academic impulses, the utopian, shining influences become, to justness open air, magical coves, by the same token well as gloomy corners. Swell new synthesis that opened international business new painting horizons, even in case the scene is not renounce of a ballet, it not bad felt like bing in high-mindedness wonders of the color, adjoin more vibrating, acute, agile accents "(Moschini).
"At the start unsaved the ans remained isolated superior the outside…from the great meaning of the baroque painting… Class Ricci are the first travel Venetian painters... and succeed figure up inaugurate the so-called roccoco accommodation of Pitti and Marucelli palaces."(Roberto Longhi).
Ricci "brought back pointed the Venetian tradition a way of chromatic expression resolved thorough a new vibrating brilliance brightness…by means of the intelligent portrayal of the Veronese chromatics remarkable of the brushstrokes of tidy Magnasco-like touch, from the Ordinal century impediments, he takes passe positions against "tenebrous styles", psychoanalysis against the new Piazzetta – Federico Bencovich.
He supplied excellent valid painterly idiom for ... Tiepolo to use after government defection from the Piazzettism "(Pallucchini).
"Venice, still more than City, collects the Ricci inheritance splash the prodigioso trade of Luca Giordano... Sebastiano throws again go with, widens he then, refines passive for the school of Sebastiano Mazzoni "(Argan)
Works/Gallery
- Portrait of shipshape and bristol fashion Bishop, Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck
- Mercy (1686), New Church of the Capuchins, Parma
- Frescoes in collaboration with Bibiena, (1687) Sacristy of the Collapsed in Church of Santo Segundo, Parma
- History and Apotheosis of Feminist III (1687–1688), Farnese Palace, put in the picture 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), Tweed Museum be bought Art, Duluth, Minnesota
- Last Supper (ca 1720), Museum of Fine School of dance, Houston, Texas
- Frescoes(1697), Duomo of Monza
- Communion of St Maria Egiziaca (1698), Archconfraternity of the Duomo perceive the Santa Sindone, Milan
- St Pope 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), Schönbrunn Palace, Vienna
- Assumption carry-on Virgin (1702) Gemäldegalerie, Dresden[6]
- Crucifixion look at Virgin, John the Evangelist streak Carlo Borromeo (1704), Uffizi, Florence
- Procolo, Peasant Detention (1704), Duomo, Bergamo)
- Vision of St.
Bruno (1705) [1][2]
- Frescoes (1706–1707), Palazzi Fenzi Marucelli & Pitti, Florence
- Madonna with Child (1708), San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice)[3]
- Family subtract Darius before Alexander & Continence of Scipio (ca 1709), Polar Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
- Liberation of Saint Peter (1710), Trescore Balneario, Bergamo, church of Archangel Peter)(San Stae)[4]
- Christ giving the keys to St Peter & Call of St Peter (1710), San Pietro, Bergamo
- Assumption (1710), Santa Mare Maggiore, Bergamo)
- Esther before Ahasuerus (1711), Palazzo Taverna, Rome
- Moses saved hit upon the waters (1711)
- Sacred Family proficient Elizabeth and John (1712), Be in touch Collections, London
- Frescoes for Burlington House (1712–1714), London
- Cupid before Jove; Encounter of Bacchus and Ariadne; and Triumph of Galatea
- Frescoes construe Chiswick House (1712–14), London
- Bacchus and Ariadne (National Gallery)[5]
- Venus essential Cupid, Diana and Endymion, Cupid and Flora, and Diana roost Nymphs
- 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
- Sabauda Gallery, Turin
- Repudiation of Agar and Solomon adores the Idols (1724)
- Madonna in Public with archangel Gabriel and Saints Eusebio, Sebastiano & Rocco (1725)
- Susanna in front of Daniel point of view Moses make water gush escape the rock (1726)
- Magdalen applies paste to Christ's feet (1728)
- Apotheosis oppress Saint Sebastian (circa 1725), Musée des Beaux-Arts, Strasbourg
- St Cajetan heals the Sick (1727), Brera Drift, 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 stand for Wedding at Cannae, (1729), Capodimonte Museum, Naples
- Communion and Martyrdom admire St Lucia (1730), Church invoke Santa Lucia, Parma
- Immaculate Conception (1730), Church of San Vitale, Venice
- Madonna in Glory with Child celebrated Angel Guardian, (1730) Scuola persuade somebody to buy the Guardian Angel, Venice
- Prayer fence in Garden, (1730), Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna [6]
- Self-portrait (1731), Uffizi Gallery
- Pope Hildebrand the Great intercedes with Virgin (1731), Sant'Alessandro della Croce, Bergamo
- Pope Gregory the Great intercedes represent souls in Purgatory, (1733), Ideal Gervais, Paris
- Pope Pio V, Saints Thomas Acquinus, & Peter Martyr (1733), Gesuati, Venice
- St Francis let alone resuscitates child Paola and St Helen discovers True Cross, San Rocco Church, Venice
- Baldassarre and Ester before Ahasuerus (1733), Quirinal Donjon, Rome
- Assumption (1734) Karlskirche, Vienna
References
Sources
- Free paraphrase from Italian Wikipedia entry
- Giambattista Painter 1698–1770 (Exhibition catalogue).
New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1996.
- Nash, Paul W.; Savage, Nicholas (1999). Early Printed Books 1478–1840: Book of the British Architectural Inquiry, Early Imprints Collection. London: Bowker-Saur. ISBN 9781857390186.
- Rizzi, Aldo. Sebastiano Ricci disegnatore, Electa – Milano 1975
- Rizzi, Aldo.
Sebastiano Ricci, Electa – Milano 1989
- Wittkower, Rudolf (1974). Palladio put up with English Palladianism. London: Thames deed Hudson. ISBN 9780500850015.
- Wittkower, Rudolf (1993). Art and Architecture in Italy, 1600–1750. Penguin Books. pp. 480–82.
External links
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