Alfredo Ricci | |
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| Born | 1864 |
| Died | 1889 (aged 25) |
| Known for | Genre paintings |
Alfredo Ricci (1864, Rome–1889) [1] [2] was an Italian painter, mainly painting genre pieces in watercolor.[ citation needed]
Biography
Ricci studied at, but did not graduate from, the Accademia di San Luca. [2] Along with artists including Gabriele D'Annunzio, Scipione Vannutelli, Onorato Carlandi, Mario de Maria, Enrico Coleman and Giulio Aristide Sartorio, he frequented the Caffè Greco in Rome. [3] [2] He was influenced by the Pre-Raphaelites [4] [2] and helped found the group In Arte Libertas in 1886. [5]
In 1884, he exhibited Desideri in Turin; the following year, he exhibited Ozio in Rome. Among other works are: Dolce far niente; Costume romano; Ciociara, and Buttero del Lazio. [6] His painting of an organist, titled Mystical music (1866), is in the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna in Rome[ citation needed] along with many of his other pieces. [2]
References
- ^ Ricci, Alfredo, Enciclopedia Treccani
- ^ a b c d e "D'Annunzio, his Illustrators and Italian Pre-Raphaelitism", by Giuliana Pieri in Image and Word: Reflections of Art and Literature, edited by Antonella Braida and Giuliana Pieri. Routledge, 2003.
- ^ Tracce dannunziane nella cultura artistica fiorentina del Novecento in Il portolano, no. 99-100, page 11.
- ^ Il Futurismo nella Arti Figurative: dalle origini divisioniste al 1916 by Francesco Tedeschi, EDUCatt 1995. Page 36.
- ^ Reviewed Work: Nino Costa (1826–1903). Transnational Exchange in European Landscape Painting by Arnika Schmidt, by Martin Hopkinson. The British Art Journal, vol. 18, no. 3. Winter 2017-2018, page 111.
- ^ Dizionario degli Artisti Italiani Viventi: pittori, scultori, e Architetti, by Angelo de Gubernatis. Tipe dei Successori Le Monnier, 1889, page 413.
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