Mariano Riccio

Mariano Riccio, Pieta of the Converted, oil on canvas, 182 x 152 cm. Regional Museum of Messina

Mariano Riccio (born 1510) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period.

He was born at Messina, and painted altarpieces. He was a pupil of Franco, and afterwards of Polidoro da Caravaggio, whose style he successfully imitated. His son, Antonello Riccio, was also a painter.

References

• Bryan, Michael (1889). Walter Armstrong & Robert Edmund Graves (ed.). Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical. Vol. II L-Z. London: George Bell and Sons. p. 372.