Giovanni Battista Ricci

Ricci moved to Rome from his native Piedmont during the papacy of Gregory XIII and was registered with the guild of painters by 1581.

[1] He also painted in the Vatican Library and the church of Santissima Trinità dei Pellegrini.

[2] In 1617–1620, Ricci collaborated with Cristoforo Greppi, a painter from Lombardy, in designing and painting the frescoes for the Castellani Chapel in San Francesco a Ripa.

[3] Ricci and his assistants executed several frescoes and paintings in the church of San Giacomo Scossacavalli in Borgo, destroyed in 1937.

[4] Ricci was an excellent draftsman, working primarily in pen and brown ink, although a handful of studies in chalk are also known.