Ceiling fresco (detail)

1711 · Ca' Dolfin in San Pantalon, Venice

mythological

The groups of figures comprising The Apotheosis of Venice are surrounded by a pile of Virtues and good-natured deities, including a Mercury who skips about, winking with amusement.

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About the Artist

Nicolò Bambini

1651 – 1736

Italian painter, a pupil of Sebastiano Mazzoni in Venice, and then of Carlo Maratta in Rome. He was again in Venice from 1687, leaving many altarpieces painted in the manner of Pietro Liberi as well as two canvases for the Doge's Palace. His eclectic, impersonal production, characterized by affected, pearl-suffused colours and the influence of Antonio Balestra, helped to popularise the Roman academic style in Venice.

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