Giovanni Battista Ricci (Novara, circa 1537 – Rome, 1627) nicknamed Il Novara after his birth town, was an

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of the late-

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and early- Baroque period, active mainly in

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Biography

Ricci moved to Rome from his native Piedmont during the papacy of

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and was registered with the guild of painters by 1581. He was active in the fresco decoration (1590-1593) of the Scala Sancta in Santa Maria Maggiore, in the decoration (1597-1613) of San Marcello, and (1619) Santa Maria in Traspontina. He was influenced by

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. He also painted in the Vatican Library and the church of Santissima Trinità dei Pellegrini. In 1617–1620, Ricci collaborated with Cristoforo Greppi, a painter from Lombardy, in designing and painting the frescoes for the Castellani Chapel in

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. Ricci and his assistants executed several frescoes and paintings in the church of San Giacomo Scossacavalli in Borgo, destroyed in 1937. Ricci was an excellent draftsman, working primarily in pen and brown ink, although a handful of studies in chalk are also known.R. Eitel-Porter, "Giovanni Battista Ricci da Novara" in: ''Disegno, giudizio e bella maniera. Studi sul disegno italiano in onore di Catherine Monbeig Goguel'', edited by P. Costamagna, F. Harb, and S. Prosperi Valenti Rodino, Silvana Editoriale, Cinisello Balsamo (Milan), 2005, pp. 108-109

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16th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 17th-century Italian painters Italian Baroque painters Italian Mannerist painters 1530s births 1627 deaths {{Italy-painter-16thC-stub