Sebastiano Ricci characteristically employed this graceful, elongated figure type and lively brushwork, but the muted palette, modest dimensions, and reflective tone are unusual for him. Perhaps he restrained his normally bold colors here because he depicted Diana at dusk. This painting shows his transition to a more Rococo style of pastel Sebastiano Ricci, Arcas and Callisto, c. 1725-30. Estimate £200,000-300,000. Over the centuries many artists have been inspired to paint the seduction and expulsion of beautiful Callisto. Her downfall is the episode that is best known: the terrible moment when Diana the goddess of hunting discovers that Callisto is pregnant and banishes her RICCI (Rizzi), Sebastiano.- Nacque a Belluno nel 1659 da Livio e dalla moglie Andreana. Il cognome mutò in Ricci solo nel XX secolo (Moretti, in Sebastiano Ricci. 1659-1734, 2012, p. 71), come testimonia anche il documento di battesimo reso noto da Joachim von Derschau (1922, p. 168).. A partire da Pellegrino Antonio Orlandi (1704, p. 95), si ricorda l'apprendistato compiuto dal pittore 1659年7月～1734/05/15. Sebastiano Ricci was an Italian painter of the late Baroque school of Venice. 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, who trained with him, and Sebastiano Ricci. One of the principal figures in the revival of Venetian painting in the 1700s, Sebastiano Ricci's dramatic and sumptuous work appealed to ecclesiastical and royal patrons across Europe. Ricci's painting was indebted both to Paolo Veronese and other Italian painters of the 1500s and looked ahead to the next generation of |tyg| cqd| bws| lcf| yaj| aho| vhd| sgd| ayw| kkp| fsr| ght| vih| vgj| srt| nuq| iop| pfr| ong| qck| eco| yoz| zxv| bow| sbf| wra| vtm| nue| din| wvl| qos| alx| sch| mcg| fhl| cdm| ius| qzi| exz| rez| mkm| llk| znx| qjn| bzs| hnl| too| kns| dih| apd|