Sebastiano Ricci: 6 works

'His patrons included Queen Anne and Lord Burlington. Ricci, described by an English contemporary as ""a lusty man, inclinable to fat"", is said to have left England in disgust when the commission to decorate St. Paul's was given to James Thornhill, a native Protestant.'

'Effectively employing the usual Roman Baroque sense of dramatic light and color, he adopted Giovanni Battista Gaulli's strong, rather hot colors for the costumes and the sky.'

'Sebastiano Ricci's depiction of the pivotal moment in this episode likely served as a preparatory study for a painting.'

'Sebastiano Ricci helped revitalize Venetian art at the beginning of the eighteenth century by adopting the luminous, richly colored style of Paolo Veronese and making it looser and more spontaneous, as seen in The Battle of the Lapiths and Centaurs.'

'Ricci used strong diagonals and active poses to suggest energetic movement.'

'Sebastiano Ricci used an array of flesh tones to describe and model the playful, graceful figures, from the reddish-brown tanned skin of the athletic men to the light brownish-peach skin of the cherub blowing a conch shell in the lower right-hand corner and the even lighter flesh of the women.'