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Description: | This is probably a preparatory sketch for the ceiling of a country house. Apollo, god of light and music, is shown in the sky at the top centre of the composition surrounded by three Muses. Below, figures in classical drapery sit around. Marco Ricci successfully employed sotto in su perspective to create the illusion of Apollo flying above the depicted figures and the viewer. The illusion would have been more effective in the finished ceiling. The subject reflects the eighteenth-century taste for classical themes and is typical of Ricci who principally worked on the decoration of country houses. | Subjects: | figure; mythology (Apollo Muses) | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Ricci, Marco (Italian painter and draftsman, 1676-1730) Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8849... | Go to resource |
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