Pietro Barucci (20 April 1845 – 23 February 1917) was an Italian painter, mainly of landscapes of rural areas around Rome.

Biography

Born in

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, he studied at the

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, where he was a pupil of professor

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. In 1878, he exhibited a landscape at the Accademia and was awarded a medal. He spent most of his career in Rome as a landscape painter; with occasional excursions to the

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. Among his other works are paintings of the ''Campagna romana''; ''Palude'', and ''

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'', at the exhibition of Belle Arti of Rome in 1883. He also had showings in Chicago in 1893, and at the

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in Paris in 1907. He was the grandfather of architect Pietro Barucci.

Works

*''Landscape''

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, New Hampshire

References

External links

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