Giovanni M. Ricca

Place: Naples

Born: 1603

Biography:

Giovanni Ricca was an Italian painter of the Baroque period in Naples and Southern Italy. He trained as a follower or pupil of Giuseppe Ribera. He is known for his painting of Santa Caterina of Alessandria (circa 1630) at the Palazzo Madama, Turin, a Transfiguration (1641) once in the church of Santa Maria della Sapienza, Naples, and an Adoration of the Shepherds from the church of Santa Maria del Sepolcro in Potenza. Also attributed to Ricca are the privately owned Martyrdom of St Ursula, St Elisabeth of Hungary, and Santa Francesca Romana (1634). He died in Naples in circa 1656.