Sebastiano Ricci, The Angel Appearing to Hagar and Ishmael (1726/1727)

The Expulsion of Hagar, the subject depicted in the foreground of this panel, is an episode from the Old Testament, as are the other episodes depicted in the background. According ...

Marco Ricci was the nephew of the painter Sebastiano Ricci, with whom he collaborated and who may have been his first teacher, although it has also been suggested that he studied w...

This early work by Sebastiano Ricci, which was the subject of an enthusiastic commentary by Rodolfo Pallucchini, has been dated to around 1694. In 1691 the artist was in Rome where...

Sebastiano del Piombo was one of the great painters of the Renaissance. Highly esteemed in his own day, his figure was later overshadowed by the great personalities with whom he co...

Winter Landscape entered the Thyssen-Bornemisza collection in 1977, shortly after Landscape with a Storm, the other work by the artist in this collection. The canvas was acquired o...

The present pair of canvases depicts the weddings of Neptune, god of the sea, and Bacchus, god of wine. They can be dated to the early 1690s during the time Ricci was in Rome. Amo...

The present pair of canvases depicts the weddings of Neptune, god of the sea, and Bacchus, god of wine. They can be dated to the early 1690s during the time Ricci was in Rome. Amo...