Thursday, May 19, 2022

Felice Riccio, called il Brusasorce (1542-1605) - Verona

Felice Riccio (il Brusasorci)
Portrait of a Gentleman
ca. 1600
oil on canvas
Museo di Castelvecchio, Verona

Felice Riccio (il Brusasorci)
Portrait of Pase Guarienti
before 1567
oil on canvas
Museo di Castelvecchio, Verona

Felice Riccio (il Brusasorci)
Portrait of a Gentleman
ca. 1590
oil on canvas
Museo di Castelvecchio, Verona

Felice Riccio (il Brusasorci)
Allegory of Courage crowned by Fame
ca. 1590
oil on canvas
Museo di Castelvecchio, Verona

Felice Riccio (il Brusasorci)
Allegory of Courage crowned by Fame (detail)
ca. 1590
oil on canvas
Museo di Castelvecchio, Verona

Felice Riccio (il Brusasorci)
Battle of Centaurs and Lapiths
ca. 1600
oil on canvas
Museo di Castelvecchio, Verona

Felice Riccio (il Brusasorci)
Adoration of the Magi
ca. 1573
oil on canvas
Chiesa di San Francesco al Corso, Verona

Felice Riccio (il Brusasorci)
Christ at the Column
ca. 1589
oil on slate
Museo di Castelvecchio, Verona

Felice Riccio (il Brusasorci)
The Entombment
ca. 1605
oil on slate
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Felice Riccio (il Brusasorci)
Dead Christ mourned by Angels
ca. 1590
oil on slate
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Felice Riccio (il Brusasorci)
Christ in Limbo
ca. 1605
oil on slate
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Felice Riccio (il Brusasorci)
St Justina
ca. 1575
oil on canvas
Museo di Castelvecchio, Verona

Felice Riccio (il Brusasorci)
St Sylvester
baptizing Emperor Constantine
(detail)
ca. 1570-80
oil on canvas
Museo degli affreschi
Giovanni Battista Cavalcaselle, Verona

Felice Riccio (il Brusasorci)
Virgin and Child enthroned
with the Infant St John the Baptist
and Eight Additional Saints

ca. 1565
oil on canvas
(altarpiece)
Chiesa della Santissima Trinità, Verona

Felice Riccio (il Brusasorci)
Virgin and Child
appearing to a Group of Holy Martyrs

1579
oil on canvas
(altarpiece)
Museo di Castelvecchio, Verona

Felice Riccio (il Brusasorci), completed by Alessandro Turchi
Altar of St Raimundo de Peñafort
ca. 1600-1610
oil on canvas
(altarpiece)
Chiesa di Santa Anastasia, Verona

Riccio (Felice), called Brusasorci, the Younger – born at Verona about 1550; was first instructed by his father, and afterwards under Jacopo Ligozzi, at Florence; he painted several pictures of Holy Families, and Madonnas with angels, which were admired for the graceful air of their heads, and beautiful expressions: died 1605.

– James R. Hobbes, The Picture Collector's Manual (London: T. & W. Boone, 1849)