Painting ID:: 8911
Dream of Aesculapius c. 1710
Oil on canvas, 62 x 101 cm
Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice
RICCI, Sebastiano 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. Dream of Aesculapius c. 1710
Oil on canvas, 62 x 101 cm
Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice
