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FINCH COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART-62 East 78th. Fifty Venetian paintings from the 17th century range from Palma II Giovane to Sebastiano Ricci. Through April...
FINCH COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART-62 East 78th. Fifty Venetian paintings from the 17th century range from Palma II Giovane, who worked in Titian's studio and is thought to have finished Titian's last Pietà, to Sebastiano Ricci, the uncle and teacher of Marco Ricci, who set the style for 18th century Venetian landscape painting. Through April...
...rain-lashed Venetian tavern, a young artist named Marco Ricci killed a gondolier who had slighted his paintings. Had it not been for this murder, argue some Italian historians, 18th century Venetian landscape painting might never have thrived as it did. To keep Ricci from the law, his Uncle Sebastiano packed the young hothead off to Dalmatia, where the wild landscape inflamed his imagination. After the heat was off in Venice, which took four years, he returned, and his painting began to give new life to the coloristic Venetian tradition that had seemed over with the death of Tintoretto...
Painter Ricci did not, of course, learn all he knew in Dalmatia. Uncle Sebastiano taught him, and he was much swayed by Genoese oils filled with fantastic orgies of intertwined trees. A talented stage designer, he traveled to London to design sets for the Italian opera there. (He could not resist turning out a few wicked caricatures of English operatic rehearsals, so satirical that they were long thought to be by Hogarth.) He then began painting imaginary ruins, mingling fancy with the realistic landscapes. And this foretaste of rococo and romanticism created a whole new genre of painting, called caprices...
...gardener's fate, said only that they knew nothing. Clearly they would be no help in answering the key question: Were the friars only tools of anonymous higher-ups, or were they the masterminds? Either way, their action had brought grief to the Capuchins of Sicily. Said Father Sebastiano, provincial head of the order, who himself had been shaken down by the ring: "Even among us, somebody sometimes makes mistakes...