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Giuseppe Ricci (1853 in
Genoa Genoa ( ; ; ) is a city in and the capital of the Italian region of Liguria, and the sixth-largest city in Italy. As of 2025, 563,947 people live within the city's administrative limits. While its metropolitan city has 818,651 inhabitan ...
– April 21, 1901 in
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) was an Italian painter, often painting indoor genre themes.


Biography

While he was born and a resident of Genoa, he had trained first in
Turin Turin ( , ; ; , then ) is a city and an important business and cultural centre in northern Italy. It is the capital city of Piedmont and of the Metropolitan City of Turin, and was the first Italian capital from 1861 to 1865. The city is main ...
with Enrico Gamba and then in Paris with
Léon Bonnat Léon Joseph Florentin Bonnat (; 20 June 1833 – 8 September 1922) was a French painter, Grand Officer of the Légion d'honneur, art collector and professor at the Ecole des Beaux Arts. Early life Bonnat was born in Bayonne, but from 1846 to 1853 ...
. In 1880, he exhibited ''Bozzeto di mendicante''. In 1892, the Civic Museum of Turin acquired ''Una lezione di musica (The Music Lesson)''. In 1900, he painted ''Voci Intime (Intimate Voices)''; ''Madonna del Fiore'' (won Alinari Prize); and ''Le pain be'nit'' (1900). He was strongly influenced by the French painter
Eugène Carrière Eugène Anatole Carrière (; 16 January 1849 – 27 March 1906) was a French Symbolist artist of the fin-de-siècle period. Carrière's paintings are best known for their near-monochrome brown palette and their ethereal, dreamlike quality. ...
. Giuseppe Pasquale Ricci, who bears no known relationship, was a merchant of the city of
Trieste Trieste ( , ; ) is a city and seaport in northeastern Italy. It is the capital and largest city of the Regions of Italy#Autonomous regions with special statute, autonomous region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia, as well as of the Province of Trieste, ...
. In 1880 at the Exhibition of Turin, he displayed:''Buon viaggio''; and in 1884, ''Diogene'' and ''In processione''. In 1883 at the Exhibition of Rome, he exhibited ''Per la processione''. In 1880, at the Fine Arts Exhibition of Milan, he displayed the realist style painting of ''Mendicante'' (Beggar).''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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1853 births 1901 deaths 19th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 20th-century Italian painters Painters from Genoa Italian genre painters 19th-century Italian male artists 20th-century Italian male artists {{Italy-painter-19thC-stub