Giovanni Ottavio Rappetti

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Giovanni Ottavio Rappetti (Turin, 1849 - 1931) [1] was an Italian painter, mainly of genre subjects.

Biography

As a young man, he was employed in documenting through drawings the collections – including beetles, flowers, and fossils – of the Museum of Natural History of Turin. He later studied at the Accademia Albertina under Gamba, Gastaldi and Gilli [2]

At Milan, in 1883, he exhibited: Al convento; in 1884 at Turin, he exhibited another copy of the same painting: Una partita a tarocchi: In val Salici; Una bella giornata; Da Celle. practiced the then novel technique of chromolithography, [3] including works such as La Famiglia di Carlo I; I facsimili Ciardi; and Lancerotto. He painted a Portrait of the Queen Margherita for the Princess Laetitia. Other genre works included Idillio; Vicinanze di Condove ; Triste giornata; Fervet opus; and In cerca del Papa. He taught himself many languages, and taught German at the Circolo Filologico. [4]

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References

  1. ↑ Istituto Matteucci biography.
  2. ↑ Augusta Taurinorum; Torino Illustrata nelle sue Cose e nei suoi Cittadini: i viventi pittore Archived 2013-12-19 at the Wayback Machine ; by Ernesto Marini, Editore proprietario, Genoa, 1901, page 215-216Biography hosted by Museo Torino.
  3. ↑ Dizionario degli Artisti Italiani Viventi: pittori, scultori, e Architetti, by Angelo de Gubernatis. Tipe dei Successori Le Monnier, 1889, Page 405-406.
  4. ↑ Augusta Taurinorum biography


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