Luigi Riccardi
Luigi Riccardi (Lione, 1808 – Milan, 1877) was an Italian painter.
Career
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He was mainly a landscape and seascape painter. He trained under Giuseppe Bisi,[1] and was influenced by Massimo d'Azeglio.[2]
Luigi Riccardi joined Francesco Gonin in illustrating the 1840 second edition of Alessandro Manzoni's The Betrothed, drawing some famous landscapes.[3]
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 was one of his pupils.
References
[edit]- ^ La Pittura lombarda nel secolo XIX., Tipografia Capriolo e Massimino, 1900, page 47.
- ^ *Caimi, Antonio (1862). Delle arti del designo e degli artisti nelle provincie di Lombardia dal 1777-1862. Milan, Italy: Presso Luigi di Giacomo Pirola. p. 95.
- ^ 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).
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