Name Giovanni Rappetti | ||
Giovanni Ottavio Rappetti (Turin, 1849 - 1931) was an Italian painter, mainly of genre subjects.
Biography
As a young man, he worked for the documenting in drawings the collections, including beetles, flowers, and fossils of the Museum of Natural History of Turin. He later studied at the Accademia Albertina under Gamba, Gastaldi and Gilli
At Milan, in 1883, he exhibited: Al convento; in 1884 at Turin, he exhibited another copy of the same painting: Una partita a tarocchi: In val Salici; Una bella giornata; Da Celle. practiced the then novel technique of chromolithography, including works such as La Famiglia di Carlo I; I facsimili Ciardi; and Lancerotto. He painted a Portrait of the Queen Margherita for the Princess Laetitia. Other genre works included Idillio; Vicinanze di Condove; Triste giornata; Fervet opus; and In cerca del Papa. He taught himself many languages, and taught German at the Circolo Filologico.