Young Shepherdess. Work of Giuseppe Maria Crespi, preserved in the Pinacoteca, Museo Civico, Bassano del Grappa, Vicenza, Veneto

Young Shepherdess. Work of Giuseppe Maria Crespi, preserved in the Pinacoteca, Museo Civico, Bassano del Grappa, Vicenza, Veneto1939Spagnolo, Giuseppe Maria Crespi, known as1685-17...

Giuseppe Maria Crespi was the most outstanding, late Baroque artist in Bologna. He worked in oil and fresco and also produced book illustrations. Crespi executed religious painting...

During the last years of the 16th century Venetian painting was largely dominated by the Da Ponte family, who were known by the name of their native city of Bassano where they work...

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...

In December 1577 a fire broke out on the ground floor of the Doge’s Palace in Venice, resulting in serious damage to the decoration, walls, ceilings and furnishings of various room...