Giovanni Ottavio Rappetti Explained

Giovanni Ottavio Rappetti (Turin, 1849 - 1931)[1] was an Italian painter, mainly of genre subjects.

Biography

As a young man, he was employed in documenting through drawings the collections – including beetles, flowers, and fossils – of the Museum of Natural History of Turin. He later studied at the Accademia Albertina under Gamba, Gastaldi and Gilli[2]

At Milan, in 1883, he exhibited: Al convento; in 1884 at Turin, he exhibited another copy of the same painting: Una partita a tarocchi: In val Salici; Una bella giornata; Da Celle. practiced the then novel technique of chromolithography,[3] including works such as La Famiglia di Carlo I; Italian: I facsimili Ciardi; and Lancerotto. He painted a Portrait of the Queen Margherita for the Princess Laetitia. Other genre works included Idillio; Vicinanze di Condove; Triste giornata; Fervet opus; and In cerca del Papa. He taught himself many languages, and taught German at the Circolo Filologico.[4]

Notes and References

  1. http://www.istitutomatteucci.it/it/dizionario-degli-artisti/rapetti-ottavio-giovanni Istituto Matteucci
  2. http://www.museotorino.it/resources/pdf/books/25/files/assets/downloads/page0233.pdf Augusta Taurinorum; Torino Illustrata nelle sue Cose e nei suoi Cittadini: i viventi pittore
  3. https://books.google.com/books?id=Zz0bAAAAYAAJ Dizionario degli Artisti Italiani Viventi: pittori, scultori, e Architetti
  4. Augusta Taurinorum biography