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Arturo Ricci (Florence, 19 April 1854−1919) was an Italian painter, known for his figurative subjects, genre scenes, and art of family life.
Arturo Ricci was born in Florence 19th April 1854.
Arturo Ricci was born in Florence 19th April 1854.

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Valerio Adami (b. 1935)

Enrolled at Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera in Milano at the age of 16, where he studied painting from 1951 to 1954. Made his first trip to Paris in 1955, where he met Wifredo Lam and Roberto Matta who were to have a seminal influence on him. His works, which are related to American pop art, often include portraits of famous people, for instance James Joyce, Sigmund Freud and Gustav Mahler. First solo exhibition held in Milan in 1959, and since then has exhibited frequently throughout the world. In 1985, a solo exhibition was dedicated to Adami at Musée National d´Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris. Valerio Adami lives and works in Paris.

Vincenzo Agnetti (1926–1981)

Studied art in Milan. A pioneer of radical Italian conceptual art in the circle around Galleria Azimut. One of his projects was to perform experiments by writing aphorisms from notebooks on Bakelite boards. With his textual works Agnetti wanted to explore how new forms and perspectives could be generated usin

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Lisa Yuskavage is an American artist🎨 who lives and works in New York City. She is known for her figure paintings, in which seemingly ignoble subjects are depicted with classic, historical techniques.

Yuskavage was born in 1962 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She attended the Tyler School of Art at Temple University, and studied abroad during her third year through the Tyler School of Art’s program in Rome, before obtaining her BFA in 1984. Yuskavage received her MFA from the Yale School of Art in 1986.

She had a New York exhibit sell out before it opened, and one of her paintings sold at auction for more than $1 million.

In September 2015, Lisa Yuskavage: The Brood opened at the Rose Art Museum of Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts.

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Arturo Ricci was born in Florence 19th April 1854. He studied in Florence under Tito Conti (1842-1924), a painter of genre renowned for "… the grace of his figures, precision of drawing and strength of his colours", Ricci was to surpass his master in all facets of his work.

Painting figurative subjects, genre scenes and scenes from family life, Ricci soon established himself as one of the foremost artists in Europe in the field of historical costume genre.

Fellow artists in this specific field included Vittorio Reggianini born 1858 in Modena, and Charles Frederick Soulacroix (1825-1879) in Paris.

Historical genre, most particularly eighteenth century subjects, were of enormous appeal to collectors throughout Europe and the United States, harking back to what was perceived as a golden age of elegance, sophistication, and taste, prior to the harsh realities of the Industrial Revolution.

It was of course this revolution in industry, manufacturing and commerce that created the wealthy classes that collected these very paintings.

Ricci himself specialised in ane