# Cupids at Play

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## Artwork

- Artist: [RICCI, Sebastiano](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/ricci-sebastiano-reccf91a38f3dfb>)
- Date: 1701-1750
- Technique: Fresco, stucco work

## Commentary

One element that was unusual for Venetian art at the time was the four large shells, painted inside stucco shells on the ceiling, on which frolicsome putti are depicted playing with lions and tigers.

## Related artworks

- [Allegory of Marcantonio Colonna&#39;s Victory at Lepanto](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/ricci-sebastiano-reccf91a38f3dfb/allegory-of-marcantonio-colonnas-victory-at-lepanto-r84addff76c47a1>)
- [Altar of St Gregory the Great](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/ricci-sebastiano-reccf91a38f3dfb/altar-of-st-gregory-the-great-r61ddad00b31d83>)
- [Amor Virtutis Casts Ignorantia down into Orcus](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/ricci-sebastiano-reccf91a38f3dfb/amor-virtutis-casts-ignorantia-down-into-orcus-r283c5d033393af>)
- [Angel of the Annunciation](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/ricci-sebastiano-reccf91a38f3dfb/angel-of-the-annunciation-r70450ea0a6d022>)
- [Apotheosis of Hercules](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/ricci-sebastiano-reccf91a38f3dfb/apotheosis-of-hercules-rcaad37f780da45>)
- [Bacchanal in Honour of Pan](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/ricci-sebastiano-reccf91a38f3dfb/bacchanal-in-honour-of-pan-r23f7148b62c628>)
- [Bacchanal in Honour of Pan](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/ricci-sebastiano-reccf91a38f3dfb/bacchanal-in-honour-of-pan-r7f03d4c6b2d87c>)
- [Bacchus and Ariadne](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/ricci-sebastiano-reccf91a38f3dfb/bacchus-and-ariadne-re9c2b33f780e21>)
- [Bathsheba at her Bath](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/ricci-sebastiano-reccf91a38f3dfb/bathsheba-at-her-bath-r08eb22a96b4fe5>)
- [Bathsheba](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/ricci-sebastiano-reccf91a38f3dfb/bathsheba-r38fed6a5a057c8>)
- [Battle of the Romans and the Sabines \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/ricci-sebastiano-reccf91a38f3dfb/battle-of-the-romans-and-the-sabines-detail-r1ccf48eb0fdd43>)
- [Battle of the Romans and the Sabines](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/ricci-sebastiano-reccf91a38f3dfb/battle-of-the-romans-and-the-sabines-r97468d863520b4>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)