Pietro Ricchi

An artist with an adventurous biography, Pietro Ricchi trained in the Florentine counter-reform environment and later entered the workshop of Guido Reni in Bologna (circa 1625). He then moved to Rome and France from where – after sojourning in Aix-en-Provence, Arles, Lyon, and Paris – had to flee following a duel. From 1634-35, he was recorded in Milan, and subsequentially in Bergamo and Brescia, Venice (during the 1660s) and Udine, where he lived until his death.