Alfredo Ricci (1864, Rome–1889)Ricci, Alfredo, Enciclopedia Treccani"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. was an Italian painter, mainly painting genre pieces in watercolor.
Biography Ricci studied at, but did not graduate from, the Accademia di San Luca. 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.Tracce dannunziane nella cultura artistica fiorentina del Novecento in Il portolano, no. 99-100, page 11. He was influenced by the Pre-RaphaelitesIl Futurismo nella Arti Figurative: dalle origini divisioniste al 1916 by Francesco Tedeschi, EDUCatt 1995. Page 36. and helped found the group In Arte Libertas in 1886.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.
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.Dizionario degli Artisti Italiani Viventi: pittori, scultori, e Architetti, by Angelo de Gubernatis. Tipe dei Successori Le Monnier, 1889, page 413. His painting of an organist, titled Mystical music (1866), is in the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna in Rome along with many of his other pieces.
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