Marco Ricci
Marco Ricci (6 June 1676 – 21 January 1730) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period.
Early years
He was born at Belluno and received his first instruction in art from his uncle, Sebastiano Ricci, likely in Milan in 1694–6.[1] He left for Venice with his uncle in 1696, but had to flee the city.[1] He visited Rome, where he was for some time occupied in painting perspective views.[2] In 1706–7, he worked with his uncle on the decoration of the Sala d'Ercole in the Palazzo Fenzi, located in Florence.[1] Ricci's propensity for collaboration with other artists makes his early style difficult to trace, but it is generally agreed that his influences included Claude Lorrain, Gaspard Dughet, and Salvator Rosa, along with a naturalistic style of landscape painting practiced in the Veneto in the 17th and early 18th centuries.[3] Closer in time, and known personally by Ricci, was the Genoese painter Alessandro Magnasco, whose handling of loose paint and his long, thin, wiry figures are echoed in a number of Ricci's early canvases.[3]
Stays in England
Through the prompting of
Venice
Marco Ricci returned to Venice in 1716, living with his uncle there until his death. Ricci's output in the 1720s was prodigious, and his production encompassed landscapes, capriccios, gouaches on vellum, drawings of stage designs and caricatures.
Gallery
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'Landscape with Mountain and Figures. Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice.
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Waterfall, Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice.
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Caricature of opera singer Maria Giustina Turcotti, Print Room, Windsor
Notes
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Giacometti, Margherita. In: The Glory of Venice: Art in the Eighteenth Century. Martineau, Jane; and Andrew Robinson, eds. Yale University Press: New Haven and London, 1994.
- ^ Bryan, Michael; and George Stanley. A biographical and critical dictionary of painters and engravers: with a list of ciphers, monograms, and marks. G. Bell, 1878.
- ^ a b c d e f Barcham, William. "Townscapes & Landscapes". In: The Glory of Venice: Art in the Eighteenth Century. Martineau, Jane; and Andrew Robinson, eds. Yale University Press: New Haven and London, 1994.
- ^ "Marco Ricci". The J. Paul Getty Museum.
- ^ Pedrocco, Filippo. Visions of Venice: Paintings of the 18th Century. Tauris Parke Books: London and New York, 2002.
- ^ Levey, Michael. "Introduction to 18th-Century Venetian Art." In: The glory of Venice: Art in the Eighteenth Century. Martineau, Jane; and Andrew Robinson, eds. Yale University Press: New Haven and London, 1994.
- ^ Bryan, Michael; and George Stanley. 1878. The full title of the set is Varia Marci Ricci Pictoris priestantissimi experimenta ab ipsomet auctore inventa, delineata atque incisa, et a me Carolo Orsolini Véneto incisore in unum collecta, c. Anno 1730, Venetiis.
- ^ Wittkower, Rudolf. Art and Architecture in Italy, 1600–1750: The Late Baroque, 1675–1750. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999.
- ^ Selfridge-Field, Eleanor. A new chronology of Venetian opera and related genres, 1660–1760. Stanford University Press: Stanford, 2007.
References
- "Marco Ricci". The J. Paul Getty Museum.
- Barcham, William (1994). "Townscapes & Landscapes". In: The glory of Venice: Art in the Eighteenth Century. Martineau, Jane; and Andrew Robinson, eds. Yale University Press: New Haven and London.
- Bryan, Michael; and George Stanley (1878). A biographical and critical dictionary of painters and engravers: with a list of ciphers, monograms, and marks. G. Bell.
- Giacometti, Margherita (1994). In: The glory of Venice: Art in the Eighteenth Century. Martineau, Jane; and Andrew Robinson, eds. Yale University Press: New Haven and London.
- Levey, Michael (1994). "An Introduction to 18th-Century Venetian Art." In: The glory of Venice: Art in the Eighteenth Century. Martineau, Jane; and Andrew Robinson, eds. Yale University Press: New Haven and London.
- Pedrocco, Filippo (2002). Visions of Venice: Paintings of the 18th Century. Tauris Parke Books: London and New York.
- Wittkower, Rudolf (1999). Art and Architecture in Italy, 1600–1750: The Late Baroque, 1675–1750. New Haven: Yale University Press.
External links
- Bryan, Michael; and George Stanley. A biographical and critical dictionary of painters and engravers: with a list of ciphers, monograms, and marks. G. Bell, 1878. [1]