Sebastiano Ricci, 1713 - The Baptism of Christ - fine art print

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In 1713 the painter Sebastiano Ricci created the classic art painting The Baptism of Christ. The version of the artpiece has the size: 26 x 40 in (66 x 101,6 cm) and was crafted with the medium oil on canvas. Moveover, the artpiece is included in the The Metropolitan Museum of Art's digital art collection. This work of art, which belongs to the public domain is being included with courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Purchase, Rogers and Gwynne Andrews Funds, and Gift of Jane L. Melville, by exchange, 1981. : Purchase, Rogers and Gwynne Andrews Funds, and Gift of Jane L. Melville, by exchange, 1981. In addition to that, the alignment is in landscape format with a ratio of 3 : 2, which implies that the length is 50% longer than the width. Sebastiano Ricci was a painter from Italy, whose art style can be classified as Baroque. The European painter lived for 75 years and was born in the year 1659 in Belluno, Belluno province, Veneto, Italy and deceased in 1734.

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An artist of international reputation, Ricci left for England in 1711 or 1712. This fine oil sketch is for the decoration (destroyed) of a wall in the Duke of Portland's chapel at Bulstrode House, Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire. The facing wall showed the Last Supper and the ceiling, the Ascension. In 1733 George Vertue praised Ricci's work in the chapel: "the whole a noble, free invention [with] great force of lights and shade, with variety and freedom in the composition of the parts."

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