Marco Ricci

Marco Ricci ( born June 5, 1676 in Belluno, † January 21, 1730 in Venice) was an Italian painter.

Life

His first training was Marco Ricci probably with his uncle Sebastiano Ricci, with whom he worked successfully even during his lifetime and then moved since Sebastiano strengths lay more in portrait painting, Marcos in the stage scenery and landscape painting.

It is said that Ricci was forced to flee as a young man from Venice, because he had slain a gondolier. So he went to Spalato, where he met with Antonio Francesco Peruzzini from Ancona. From 1704 to 1708 he was in Florence and probably he participated in painting the anteroom for summer apartment in the Palazzo Pitti with, an order had been given to the uncle of Ferdinando de ' Medici. Also in the contract for painting of the Palazzo Fenzi Marco was involved with its own ceiling paintings.

In 1708 Charles was staying Montagu (Lord Manchester ) in Venice and invited him along with Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini to London, where they should paint set designs for the Italian opera at the Queen 's Theatre in the Haymarket on behalf of the theater manager Owen Swiny. He there painted the British Prima Donna Catherine Tofts, who went to Venice in 1711. He traveled in 1710 after a study visit to the Netherlands home and took his uncle to London. 1716 then turned both back to Venice. Tofts probably in 1717 married the British businessman in Venice, Joseph Smith and Smith were both painters for an important client. In the 1720s they had a number of orders from the House of Savoy in Turin.

Ricci also designed for the Venetian theater stage sets, so for the " Teatro San Giovanni Gristomo " and the " Teatro Sant'Angelo ", and turning toward his friend, the architect Filippo Juvarra. He invented the tempera painting on goatskin. From 1723 he also produced etchings, of which only 33 are known. The Venetian painters' guild " Fraglia dei pittori " he was a member in 1726 and 1727.

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Capriccio of Rome

The tomb of the Duke of Devonshire 1725th

Adoration of the Magi in 1726.

Imaginary Palace