Pietro Ricchi (1606 – 15 August 1675) was an Italian painter of the

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period, born in

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Life

Pietro Ricchi, called ''il Lucchese'', trained from 1620 to 1623 with Domenico Crespi, called Passignano, in Florence and from 1624 to 1627 with

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in Bologna. Ricchi presumably spent two years in Rome before traveling to France to paint frescos. For several years he moved between Aix-en-Provence, Arles, Lyon and Paris. In 1632–33, he painted a fresco the rooms of . He left France following a duel. Fléchères salon chasses4.JPG, 'Salon de la Chasse' : boar hunt Fléchères chambre Parade1.JPG, 'Chambre de la Parade' : Drummer Fléchères antichambre Hercule.JPG,

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room He traveled widely thorough Northern Italy. In 1634 he went to Milan. He painted an altarpiece for the church of San Francesco in

. He spent the years 1635 to 1652 in Brescia, where he lived in the parish of Santi Faustino e Giovita. Here he produced many of his fresco and oil paintings. From Brescia he took commissions for Bergamo, Verona and Trento. He also decorated the church of San Francesco, Brescia. Francesco Monti (il Brescianino) studied under Ricchi. Ricchi moved to Venice in 1652, where he painted ''Faith'' for the choir area of

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. Ca' Rezzonico - Lot e le figlie - Pietro Ricchi.jpg, ''Lot and his daughters''

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Venice Madonna dell'Orto (Venice) - Choir The faith by Pietro Ricchi.jpg, ''The Faith'' -

Venice Ricchi spent his final years from 1670 in

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, where he died in 1675.

Other works

* '' Last Supper'' (1644), Museo Civico,

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* ''Judith and Holofernes'', Buonconsiglio Castle * ''Madonna and Saints'', Diocesan Museum of Brescia * ''Adoration of the Magi'' (1660), Indianapolis Museum of Art''Adoration of the Magi'', Indianapolis Museum of Art
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Ricchi, Pietro 1606 births 1675 deaths 17th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Painters from Lucca Italian Baroque painters