Alfredo Ricci (1864, Rome–1889)[1][2] was an Italian painter, mainly painting genre pieces in watercolor.[citation needed]

Alfredo Ricci
Born1864 (1864)
Died1889 (1890) (aged 25)
Known forGenre paintings
1886 illustration for Gabriele D'Annunzio's Isaotta Guttadauro

Biography

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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

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  1. ^ Ricci, Alfredo, Enciclopedia Treccani
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ Tracce dannunziane nella cultura artistica fiorentina del Novecento in Il portolano, no. 99-100, page 11.
  4. ^ Il Futurismo nella Arti Figurative: dalle origini divisioniste al 1916 by Francesco Tedeschi, EDUCatt 1995. Page 36.
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ Dizionario degli Artisti Italiani Viventi: pittori, scultori, e Architetti, by Angelo de Gubernatis. Tipe dei Successori Le Monnier, 1889, page 413.