Sebastiano Ricci was born in Belluno on August 1, 1659, the son of Andreana and Livio Ricci. He is considered one of the most important Venetian painters of his time and distinguished himself with paintings of religious, mythological and historical motifs from antiquity. He usually left the elaboration of the backgrounds to his trained nephew Marco Ricci (1676 - 1730), who understood landscapes better than Sebastiano Ricci himself, whose speciality was portraits.
Ricci himself studied under Federico Cervelli (1625 - before 1700) and Sebastiano Mazzoni (1611 - 1678). In 1678 Ricci was arrested because he was accused of poisoning a young woman whom he had unintentionally impregnated in order to avoid a wedding. Ricci was released through the intervention of a nobleman, married the mother of his daughter and moved with both to Bologna, where he painted religious motifs as commissioned works. Ricci left his wife and daughter in 1688 to go to Turin with the daughter of the painter Giovanni Peruzzini (1629-1694). He was again thrown into prison and then freed by the Duke of Parma, who hired him. After the death of the Duke, his protector, Ricci returned to Venice in 1698, where he lived for a decade. However, some of his works led him away from Venice. In 1701 he painted a fresco of the Resurrection in the Santi XII Apostoli in Rome and in 1702 he designed the dining room of Schönbrunn Palace.
Ricci's most important creative period is his time in Florence from 1706 to 1708 and the following three years in Venice. Among other things, Venus takes a branch from Adonis, Madonna with Child and Moses saved from the Nile. He was then employed by Lord Burlington (1694-1753) in London, for whom he painted Cupido and Jove, Bacchus meets Ariadne, Diana and Nymphs, Bacchus and Ariadne, Venus and Cupido, Diane and Endymion and Cupido and Floran. Further commissions followed before Ricci and his nephew left London for Paris in 1716. Now a wealthy man, Ricci returned to Venice in 1718, where he died in 1734.
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1308182).jpg "Study for \"An Apotheosis of a Saint\" (for San Bernardino dei Morti, Milan) by Sebastiano Ricci")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1108355).jpg "Extensive Pastoral Landscape with Hill-town, c.1720 by Sebastiano Ricci")
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.jpg "The Virgin in glory with Archangel Gabriel, St Eusebius, St Sebastian and St Roch by Sebastiano Ricci")
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.jpg "Bacchus and Ceres, not after 1710 by Sebastiano Ricci")
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.jpg "Triumph of the Marine Venus by Sebastiano Ricci")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1629961).jpg "Venus Surprised by a Satyr, c. 1720/25 by Sebastiano Ricci")
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.jpg "Biblical Scene by Sebastiano Ricci")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1642451).jpg "Bathsheba at Her Bath by Sebastiano Ricci")
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.jpg "The Holy Family with Angels by Sebastiano Ricci")
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.jpg "Bathsheba Bathing, c.1725 by Sebastiano Ricci")
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.jpg "Hercules at the Crossroad Between Vice and Virtue by Sebastiano Ricci")
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.jpg "Allegorical Tomb of the 1st Duke of Devonshire, c.1725 by Sebastiano Ricci")
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.jpg "Moses Makes Water Flow from the Rock by Sebastiano Ricci")
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.jpg "Self-portrait by Sebastiano Ricci")
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.jpg "Flora by Sebastiano Ricci")
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.jpg "The Infant Cyrus with the Shepherd by Sebastiano Ricci")
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.jpg "The Holy Family with Angels by Sebastiano Ricci")
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.jpg "Allegory of Tuscany by Sebastiano Ricci")
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_circa_1707-1708_Firen_-_(MeisterDrucke-961447).jpg "Medici Coat of Arms by Sebastiano Ricci")
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.jpg "Pope Paul III Inspired by Faith in the Ecumenical Council by Sebastiano Ricci")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-903780).jpg "Diana and her Dog by Sebastiano Ricci")
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.jpg "The Last Supper, 1713-1714 by Sebastiano Ricci")
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.jpg "Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery by Sebastiano Ricci")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-903802).jpg "Tarquin the Elder consulting Attius Navius by Sebastiano Ricci")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1514642).jpg "The Abduction of Helen (early 18th century) by Sebastiano Ricci")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1010867).jpg "The Agony in the Garden by Sebastiano Ricci")
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.jpg "Our Lady Enthroned with Saints by Sebastiano Ricci")
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.jpg "Saint Mary Magdalen surrounded by angels by Sebastiano Ricci")
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.jpg "God appears to Moses in the Burning Bush by Sebastiano Ricci")
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.jpg "The Temptation of Saint Anthony, c. 1706-1707 by Sebastiano Ricci")
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.jpg "Memorial to Admiral Sir Clowdisley Shovell by Sebastiano Ricci")
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.jpg "Saint Gregory the Great by Sebastiano Ricci")
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.jpg "The Exaltation of the True Cross by Sebastiano Ricci")
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.jpg "Hercules and Cacus by Sebastiano Ricci")
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.jpg "The Immaculate Virgin Mary by Sebastiano Ricci")
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.jpg "A Glory of the Virgin with the Archangel Gabriel and Saints Eusebius, Roch, and Sebastian by Sebastiano Ricci")
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.jpg "Antiochus Visited by the Doctor in the Presence of Seleucus and Stratonice by Sebastiano Ricci")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1425930).jpg "The Temptation of St. Anthony by Sebastiano Ricci")
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.jpg "Perspective of Ruins with Figures by Sebastiano Ricci")
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_Study_of_a_Man_(verso)_-_(MeisterDrucke-1588086).jpg "The Death of Seneca (recto); Study of a Man (verso) by Sebastiano Ricci")
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.jpg "The Healing of Blind Man of Jericho by Sebastiano Ricci")
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.jpg "Triumph of Venice by Sebastiano Ricci")
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.jpg "The Punishment of Love by Sebastiano Ricci")
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.jpg "Bacchus and Ariadne by Sebastiano Ricci")
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.jpg "Bacchante and Satyrs, c1713 by Sebastiano Ricci")
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.jpg "The Rest on the Flight into Egypt by Sebastiano Ricci")
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.jpg "The Glorification of St Sebastian, late 17th-early 18th century by Sebastiano Ricci")
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.jpg "The Rehearsal by Sebastiano Ricci")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1457623).jpg "Bacchus and Ariadne by Sebastiano Ricci")
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_1694_Dim_-_(MeisterDrucke-999359).jpg "The Apotheosis of St. Sebastian by Sebastiano Ricci")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1120603).jpg "The Glorification of Science by Sebastiano Ricci")
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.jpg "Venus, Vulcan and Cupid by Sebastiano Ricci")
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.jpg "The Exaltation of the True Cross by Sebastiano Ricci")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-903672).jpg "Triumph of the Marine Venus by Sebastiano Ricci")
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.jpg "Perseus and Medusa by Sebastiano Ricci")
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.jpg "Venus, Vulcan and Cupid by Sebastiano Ricci")
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.jpg "The Healing of the Blind Man of Jericho by Sebastiano Ricci")
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.jpg "The Miraculous Draught of Fishes by Sebastiano Ricci")
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.jpg "Venus and Adonis by Sebastiano Ricci")
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.jpg "Esther before Ahasuerus, ca 1730 by Sebastiano Ricci")
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.jpg "Venus and Satyr by Sebastiano Ricci")
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.jpg "A Miracle of Saint Francis of Paola by Sebastiano Ricci")
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.jpg "Feast of Silenus by Sebastiano Ricci")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-946766).jpg "Christ Hands Over the Keys to St. Peter by Sebastiano Ricci")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1511925).jpg "Junius Brutus by Sebastiano Ricci")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1098012).jpg "Esther Before Ahasuerus by Sebastiano Ricci")
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.jpg "Triumph of the Marine Venus by Sebastiano Ricci")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1118653).jpg "Allegory of Tuscany by Sebastiano Ricci")
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.jpg "Apotheosis of Saint George by Sebastiano Ricci")
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.jpg "Moses Drawing Water from the Rock by Sebastiano Ricci")
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.jpg "Sacrifice of Polyxena by Sebastiano Ricci")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1514664).jpg "Roman Lucretia (late 17th century) by Sebastiano Ricci")
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.jpg "Disciples at Emmaus by Jean-Honore Fragonard")
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.jpg "Abraham Welcoming the Angels, c.1695 by Sebastiano Ricci")
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.jpg "Venus and Satyr by Sebastiano Ricci")
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.jpg "Repudiation of Hagar by Sebastiano Ricci")
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.jpg "Angelica and Medoro. 1716 by Sebastiano Ricci")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1099440).jpg "The Ascension of Christ by Sebastiano Ricci")
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.jpg "Angelica and Medoro by Sebastiano Ricci")
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.jpg "Paul III Approving the Order of the Capuchins by Sebastiano Ricci")
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.jpg "The Angel Appearing to Hagar and Ishmael by Sebastiano Ricci")
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.jpg "The Rape of Europa by Sebastiano Ricci")
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.jpg "Rest During the Flight into Egypt by Sebastiano Ricci")
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.jpg "The Exaltation of the True Cross by Sebastiano Ricci")
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.jpg "The Ecstasy of Saint Francis by Sebastiano Ricci")
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_Les_satyres_cueillent_le_raisin_de_l_-_(MeisterDrucke-1320208).jpg "Bacchante and Satyrs by Sebastiano Ricci")
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_(detail_of_206172)_-_(MeisterDrucke-1128434).jpg "Bathsheba Bathing, c.1725 (detail) by Sebastiano Ricci")
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.jpg "The Baptism of Christ by Sebastiano Ricci")
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.jpg "Bacchus and Ariadne by Sebastiano Ricci")
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.jpg "David Declines King Saul’s Weapons by Sebastiano Ricci")
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.jpg "Diana and Her Dog by Sebastiano Ricci")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1080006).jpg "Minerva by Sebastiano Ricci")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1080939).jpg "Susannah and the Elders by Sebastiano Ricci")
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