Pietro Ricchi Explained

Pietro Ricchi (1606 – 15 August 1675) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, born in Lucca.

Life

Pietro Ricchi, called il Lucchese, trained from 1620 to 1623 with Domenico Crespi, called Passignano, in Florence and from 1624 to 1627 with Guido Reni in Bologna.^[1] 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.

He traveled widely thorough Northern Italy. In 1634 he went to Milan. He painted an altarpiece for the church of San Francesco in Lucca. 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.^[2] From Brescia he took commissions for Bergamo, Verona and Trento. He also decorated the church of San Francesco, Brescia.^[3] Francesco Monti (il Brescianino) studied under Ricchi.^[4]

Ricchi moved to Venice in 1652, where he painted Faith for the choir area of Madonna dell'Orto.Ricchi spent his final years from 1670 in Udine, where he died in 1675.^[5]

Other works

• Last Supper (1644), Museo Civico, Riva del Garda
• Judith and Holofernes, Buonconsiglio Castle
  • Madonna and Saints, Diocesan Museum of Brescia Adoration of the Magi (1660), Indianapolis Museum of Art^[6]

Sources

• Book: Farquhar, Maria. 1855. Biographical catalogue of the principal Italian painters. Ralph Nicholson Wornum. Ralph Nicholson Wornum. 144 . Woodfall & Kinder . London .

Notes and References

1. https://archive.org/details/abecedariopitto00orlagoog Abecedario pittorico del M.R.P. Pellegrino Antonio Orlandi, Bolognese : contenente notizie de'professore di pittura, scoltura, ed architettura, in questa edizione corretto e notabilmente di nuove notizie accresciuto Orlandi, Pellegrino Antonio; Guarienti, Pietro, Abecedario Pittorico, Naples, 1719, p. 378
2. Ducke Astrid, Habersatter Thomas. "Von 0 auf 100". Residenzgalerie Salzburg 1923-2023. Salzburg 2023, S./p. 202
3. https://books.google.com/books?id=FeIDcd_3CL8C Guida di Brescia rapporto alle arti ed ai monumenti antichi e moderni
4. https://books.google.com/books?id=W9AsAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA231&dq=Pietro+Ricchi&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjUq_yX05WCAxV_FFkFHR6eCfoQ6AF6BAgHEAI#v=onepage&q=Pietro%20Ricchi&f=false Hobbes, James R., The Picture Collector's Manual, T. & W. Boone, 1849, p. 231
5. https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/ricchi-pietro-detto-il-lucchese_%28Dizionario-Biografico%29/ Fisogni, Fiorenzo. "Ricchi, Pietro, detto il Lucchese", Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani - Volume 87 (2016)
6. https://collections.discovernewfields.org/artwork/62235 Adoration of the Magi, Indianapolis Museum of Art