(b Belluno, bapt 1 Aug 1659; d Venice, 15 May
1734).
Painter and draughtsman. He painted light and colourful
religious, historical and mythological subjects with a fluid, painterly
touch. His rediscovery of Paolo Veronese, whose settings and costumes he
borrowed, was important to later Venetian painters. Sebastiano was an
itinerant artist, celebrated throughout Europe.
St Pius, St Thomas of Aquino and St Peter Martyr
1730-33
Oil on canvas, 343 x 169 cm
S. Maria del Rosario (Gesuati), Venice
Venus and Adonis
1705-06
Oil on canvas, 70 x 40 cm
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Orléans
Venus and Satyr
1720s
Oil on canvas, 102 x 125,5 cm
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
Bathsheba at the Bath
1720s
Oil on canvas, 118,5 x 199 cm
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
Bathsheba in her Bath
c. 1725
Oil on canvas, 111,8 x 144,3 cm
Staatliche Museen, Berlin
The Adoration of the Magi
1726-30
Oil on canvas, 330,2 x 289,6 cm
Royal Collection, Windsor
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