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Giuseppe Riva (4 November 1834 in Ivrea – 10 November 1916) was an Italian lawyer and painter, known for portraits, historical paintings, and landscapes. He was a resident of Milan. One of his masterworks was ''While reading a memorial plaque for the
Calvinist Reformed Christianity, also called Calvinism, is a major branch of Protestantism that began during the 16th-century Protestant Reformation. In the modern day, it is largely represented by the Continental Reformed Protestantism, Continenta ...
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Catherine de' Medici Catherine de' Medici (, ; , ; 13 April 1519 – 5 January 1589) was an Italian Republic of Florence, Florentine noblewoman of the Medici family and Queen of France from 1547 to 1559 by marriage to Henry II of France, King Henry II. Sh ...
surprised by Mary Stuart'', sent to the Exhibition of Fine Arts at Turin in 1883. To the same exhibition in 1887, he sent ''Ultimi istanti di Cola di Rienzi, last Tribune of Rome''. In 1872 at the Milan Exposition, he displayed, several half-figure portraits. At the 1883 Rome Exposition, he displayed ''Two Shepherdesses, an Idyll''. Another painter of the same name was active in Bergamo and Rome (1861–1941).BGpedia


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1834 births 1916 deaths Italian genre painters Italian landscape painters 19th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Painters from Milan 20th-century Italian painters 19th-century Italian male artists 20th-century Italian male artists {{Italy-painter-19thC-stub