RICCI, Sebastiano c. 1725
Oil on canvas, 111,8 x 144,3 cm
Staatliche Museen, Berlin Bathsheba in her Bath 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.
