Tuesday, August 9, 2016

Sebastiano Ricci and Venetian Taste

Sebastiano Ricci
Allegory of Marcantonio Colonna's Victory at Lepanto
1693-95
fresco
Palazzo Colonna, Rome

Venetian painter Sebastiano Ricci (1659-1734) helped shape the visual preferences of a new century. He pioneered the bright-toned chiarista taste, which the Tiepolos would expand and bring to dominance as the 18th century unfurled itself.  Several generations of luminous colorists reacted against the previously dominant 17th-century somberness of so-called tenebrosi like Luca Giordano (the remote heir of Caravaggio's palette).

Sebastiano Ricci
Neptune and Amphitrite
ca. 1691-94
oil on canvas
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

Sebastiano Ricci
St Anthony of Padua healing a youth
ca. 1690
oil on canvas
Louvre

Sebastiano Ricci
Bacchus and Ariadne
ca. 1691 94
oil on canvas
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

Sebastiano Ricci
Time Bearing Truth
1697-98
fresco
Palazzo Zane, Venice

Sebastiano Ricci
Battle of Romans and Sabines
ca. 1700
oil on canvas
Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna

Sebastiano Ricci
Abduction of Sabine Women
ca. 1700
oil on canvas
Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna

Sebastiano Ricci
Venus and Adonis
1705-06
oil on canvas
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Orléans

Sebastiano Ricci
Punishment of Amor by Anteros
1706-07
oil on canvas
Palazzo Marucelli-Fenzi, Florence

Sebastiano Ricci
Diana and Calisto
1712-15
oil on canvas
Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice

Sebastiano Ricci
Nymphs and Satyrs
1712-15
oil on canvas
Louvre

Sebastiano Ricci
Venus and Satyr
1718-20
oil on canvas
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest

Sebastiano Ricci
Bathsheba Bathing
ca. 1725
oil on canvas
Staatliche Museen, Berlin

Sebastiano Ricci
St Francis of Paola
1733
oil on canvas
Scuola Grande di San Rocco, Venice