Sebastiano Ricci

Republic of Venice · 1659–1734

Sebastiano Ricci was an Italian Baroque painter of the late Baroque period in Venetian painting. About the same age as Piazzetta, and an elder contemporary of Tiepolo, he represents a late version of the vigorous and luminous Cortonesque style of grand manner fresco painting. He was the uncle of Marco Ricci (1676, 1730), who trained with him, and became an innovator in landscape painting.