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RICCI, Sebastiano
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Allegory of France as Minerva or Wisdom Who Treads Ignorance Underfoot and Crowns Martial Virtue (mk05)
Painting ID:: 20641
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RICCI, Sebastiano
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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. |
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Allegory of France as Minerva or Wisdom Who Treads Ignorance Underfoot and Crowns Martial Virtue (mk05) |
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1718
Canvas 44 1/2 x 33 1/2''(113 x 85 cm)Reception Picture at the Academie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture Transferred to the Louvre in the Revolution INV |
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| suprematist painting | Royal James at the Battle of Solebay | | |
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