[1] Ripamonte began his artistic studies under portraitist Juan Bautista Curet Cenet, later attending the studio of Italian painter Miguel Carmine.

Soon thereafter, in league with other emerging Argentine artists — Pío Collivadino, Cesáreo Bernaldo de Quirós, Fernando Fader, Ceferino Carnacini, Justo Lynch, Alberto María Rossi, and sculptors Rogelio Yrurtia and Antonio Dresco — several of whom had been in Rome with him at the same time, Ripamonte formed the Nexus Group, an artistic collective dedicated to developing Argentine national themes in a post-Impressionst idiom.

[3] In the same year, de la Cárcova left his post as vice-director of the National Academy of Fine Arts and Ripamonte succeeded him; he would continue to hold the position until 1928.

Among the 235 works by Argentine artists, those of the Nexus Group occupied a distinguished place; Ripamonte was awarded first prize in the Costumbrismo category for his oil on canvas entitled Canciones del Pago.

For much of his later life Ripamonte lived in Villa Ballester, a northern suburb of Buenos Aires, counting among his neighbors his student and colleague Ceferino Carnacini.