Pietro Ricca
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Pietro Ricca (Saluzzo, March 6, 1838 - ) was an Italian painter, mainly of landscapes.
Biography
Like his brother he studied law and graduated in 1862, but also like his younger brother, Pietro Ricca, he became a landscape painter in Turin. Among his masterworks are: Le vicinanze of Turin, sent to the 1877 National Exposition of Naples; I dintorni di Bussoleno, exhibited in 1873 at Milan; Una nevicata, exhibited at Melbourne, Australia. His painting Il medico condotto was awarded a silver medal at the Exposition held in Ferrara to celebrate the four hundredth anniversary of the birth of Ariosto.[https://books.google.com/books?id=Zz0bAAAAYAAJ Dizionario degli Artisti Italiani Viventi: pittori, scultori, e Architetti], by Angelo de Gubernatis. Tipe dei Successori Le Monnier, 1889, pages 412-413.
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Category:19th-century Italian painters
Category:Italian male painters
Category:Italian landscape painters
Category:Painters from Piedmont
Category:Accademia Albertina alumni
Category:19th-century Italian male artists
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