Sebastiano Ricci (Belluno 1659 - Venezia 1734... Lot n° 213

Sebastiano Ricci (Belluno 1659 - Venice 1734) Bacchanal Drawing 275 x 422 mm A similar version, less refined in detail and chiaroscuro, is preserved at the Accademia Galleries in Venice, published on p. 677, photo 691, of the Sebastiano Ricci monograph edited by Dr. Annalisa Scarpa. We have an admirable description of Sebastiano Ricci thanks to Pallucchini, who writes: "One of the most significant masters of the turn in the Rococo direction of Venetian figurative culture in the early 18th century. Together with Gianantonio Pellegrini and Jacopo Amigoni, the Bellunese goes on to constitute an entirely new vision, both in the employment of the means of expression as well as in the decorative spirit, which takes on a typically Rococo aspect as much in the large decoration as in the easel painting." Having come down to the lagoon from his native Belluno, he carried out his first phase of apprenticeship here, although his attention was immediately drawn to the decorative painting of the Bolognese, Annibale Carracci in primis, and the Roman Baroque, above all the examples of Pietro da Cortona and Baciccia. A wandering painter, the first of the Venetians to cross the Alps, he seized multiple stimuli in his wanderings: among these fundamental was his encounter with the art of Luca Giordano, seen in Florence. Returning to Venice after a twenty-year period, in the early 18th century, he imposed his vision of pictorial art based mainly on a revisiting of the canons of elegance and coloristic beauty that was Veronese's. Sebastiano Ricci (Belluno 1659 - Venice 1734) Bacchanal Drawing 275 x 422 mm An analogue version, less refined in detail and chiaroscuro, is preserved in the galleries of the Academy of Venice, published on page 677, photo 691, of the Sebastiano Ricci monograph edited by Dra. Annalisa Scarpa.