Marco Ricci

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Giovanni Antonio Faldoni : Portrait by Marco Ricci (1724) after Rosalba Carriera
Nicolo Grimaldi and the composer Francesco Haym at the harpsichord (1709). The hanging portraits depict Marco and Sebastiano Ricci.

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

Landscape in the afterglow , Gemäldegalerie , Berlin

Life

Marco Ricci probably got his first training from his uncle Sebastiano Ricci , with whom he worked successfully throughout his life and complemented each other, since Sebastiano's strengths were more in portrait painting , Marcos in stage scenery and landscape painting .

It is said that Ricci had to flee Venice as a young man because he killed a gondolier . So he went to Spalato , where he met Antonio Francesco Peruzzini from Ancona . From 1704 to 1708 he was in Florence and probably worked on the painting of the anteroom to the summer apartment in the Palazzo Pitti , a commission that Ferdinando de 'Medici's uncle had received. Marco was also involved in the commission to paint the Palazzo Fenzi with his own ceiling painting.

In 1708 Charles Montagu (Lord Manchester) stayed in Venice and invited him to London with Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini , where they were to paint stage sets for the Italian opera at the Queen's Theater on Haymarket on behalf of the theater manager Owen Swiny . He also painted the British prima donna Catherine Tofts there , who went to Venice in 1711. He traveled home in 1710 after studying in the Netherlands and brought his uncle to London. In 1716 they both returned to Venice. Tofts probably married the British businessman Joseph Smith in Venice in 1717 , and Smith became an important client for both painters. In the 1720s they had a number of commissions from the House of Savoy in Turin .

Ricci also designed sets for the Venetian theater, for example for the Teatro San Giovanni Grisostomo and the Teatro Sant'Angelo , based on his friend, the architect Filippo Juvarra . He invented tempera painting on goat skin . From 1723 he also made etchings , only 33 of which are known. In 1726 and 1727 he belonged to the Venetian painters' guild “Fraglia dei pittori”.

  • Image selection

  • Opera rehearsal (London, 1709)

  • Capriccio of Rome

  • Coastal scenery

  • The tomb of the Duke of Devonshire (1725)

  • Landscape with travelers

  • waterfall

  • Sebastiano and Marco Ricci: Vision of St. Bruno (the landscape is by Marco, the characters by Sebastiano)

  • Marco Ricci: Caricature by Sebastiano Ricci

  • Imaginary palace

literature

  • Frances Vivian: The Consul Smith Collection: Masterpieces of Italian Drawing from the Royal Library, Windsor Castle. From Raffael to Canaletto . Hirmer, Munich 1989, ISBN 3-7774-5120-7
  • Dario Succi: Marco Ricci e il paesaggio veneto del Settecento . Exhibition catalog 1993. Palazzo Crepadona, Belluno, ISBN 88-435-4502-7 .
  • Eberhard Kasten: Ricci, Marco . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 98, de Gruyter, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-11-023263-9 , p. 402 f.
  • Michael Matile (ed.): Della grafica veneziana: the age of Anton Maria Zanetti (1680–1767) . Petersberg: Imhof, 2016 ISBN 978-3-7319-0330-7 , pp. 114–135

Web links

Commons : Marco Ricci  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Illustration in black and white reproduction also in Frances Vivian: Die Sammlung des Consul Smith , p. 20.
  2. ↑ Frances Vivian: The Collection of Consul Smith , p. 54 and p. 56. A ceiling picture from this order .
  3. ↑ on Palazzo Fenzi in Via San Gallo see it: Palazzo Fenzi in the Italian-language Wikipedia
  4. ↑ Frances Vivian: The Collection of Consul Smith , p. 80
personal data
SURNAME Ricci, Marco
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian baroque painter
DATE OF BIRTH June 5, 1676
PLACE OF BIRTH Belluno
DATE OF DEATH January 21, 1730
Place of death Venice