Luigi Riccardi (Lione, 1808

Milan Milan ( , , ; ) is a city in northern Italy, regional capital of Lombardy, the largest city in Italy by urban area and the List of cities in Italy, second-most-populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of nea ...

, 1877) was an Italian painter.

Career

Luigi Riccardi Isola San Giulio im Ortasee

He was mainly a landscape and seascape painter. He trained under Giuseppe Bisi, and was influenced by

Massimo d'Azeglio Massimo Taparelli, Marquess of Azeglio (24 October 1798 – 15 January 1866), commonly called Massimo d'Azeglio (), was a Piedmontese-Italian statesman, novelist, and painter. He was Prime Minister of Sardinia for almost three years until succee ...

. Luigi Riccardi joined

Francesco Gonin Francesco Gonin (December 16, 1808 in Turin – September 14, 1889 in Giaveno, near Susa, Piedmont) was an Italian painter, engraver and scenographer. Biography Early life Francesco's father Giovanni was of French descent, and his mother Sa ...

in illustrating the 1840 second edition of

Alessandro Manzoni Alessandro Francesco Tommaso Antonio Manzoni (, , ; 7 March 1785 – 22 May 1873) was an Italian poet, novelist and philosopher. He is famous for the novel ''The Betrothed (Manzoni novel), The Betrothed'' (orig. ) (1827), generally ranked among ...

's '' The Betrothed'', drawing some famous landscapes.He signed among others the illustrations depicting the Ponte Vecchio at Lecco (''I promessi sposi'', chap. I, p. 9), "That branch of the lake of Como" (''I promessi sposi'', chap. I, p. 11) and "Farewell, ye mountains" (''I promessi sposi'', chap. VIII, p. 164). In 1865, he began teaching at the Brera; his work is mostly found in Milan, including at the Galleria d'Arte Moderna and Poldi-Pezzoli Museum.

Eugenio Gignous Eugenio Gignous (4 August 1850 – 30 August 1906) was an Italian painter born in Milan, which when he was born was part of the Austrian Empire. A recognised leader of the Lombard school of painting, he spent most of his life in Stresa (Verbania) ...

was one of his pupils.

References

19th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 1808 births 1877 deaths Painters from Milan Academic staff of Brera Academy 19th-century Italian male artists {{Italy-painter-19thC-stub