RICCI, Sebastiano Italian painter, Venetian school (b. 1659, Belluno, d. 1734, Venezia).Painter and draughtsman. He painted light and colourful religious, historical and mythological subjects with a fluid, painterly touch. His rediscovery of Paolo Veronese, whose settings and costumes he borrowed, was important to later Venetian painters. Sebastiano was an itinerant artist, celebrated throughout Europe. St Pius, St Thomas of Aquino and St Peter Martyr 1730-33
Oil on canvas, 343 x 169 cm
S. Maria del Rosario (Gesuati), Venice
