Fosco Tricca (March 2, 1856 – 1918) was an Italian painter. Florence Italy Bust-of Giovanni-Fattori-01

Biography

Tricca was born in

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. He studied art under the direction of his father, the artist, restorer and copyist

Angiolo Tricca Angiolo Tricca (17 February 1817 – 23 March 1884) was an Italian caricaturist and Painting, painter of historical themes. Born in Sansepolcro, he became a pupil of the painter Vincenzo Chialli. His best known works are the caricatures of Italia ...

, and the professor

Michele Gordigiani Michele Gordigiani (29 May 18357 October 1909) was an Italian painter, known best for his portraits. Biography Gordigiani was born in Florence, the son of , a famous Florence, Florentine musician. He first studied at the Florentine Academy under ...

. he began by painting small canvases of diverse subjects. In Trieste, he exhibited a half-figure depicting: ''An Odalisque''; in Milan in 1880, he displayed a painting titled: ''Tipi ameni fiorentini''. At the Promotrice he displayed a painting depicting: ''Sant'Antonio''. He painted a canvas depicting ''San Romualdo'', founder of the Carmelitan Order for the church degli Angeli in Florence; La beata Lucia delle Sette Fonti, and the bishop and martyr ''St Boniface''. He completed here a painting titled: ''I signori del tribunale'', a realist composition sent to the Exposition of Palermo of 1891. Tricca served for a year as vice-president and for two years as head of the ''Circolo artistico fiorentino''. His painting, ''Looking at the Carnival'' (1881) is at the

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in Glasgow.

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1856 births Painters from Florence 19th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 20th-century Italian painters 1918 deaths 19th-century Italian male artists 20th-century Italian male artists {{Italy-painter-19thC-stub