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Pietro Barucci

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Shepherds Camping in the Ruins
Herders in the Roman Campagna (1917)

Pietro Barucci (20 April 1845 – 23 February 1917) was an Italian painter, mainly of landscapes of rural areas around Rome.

Biography

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Born in Rome, he studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma, where he was a pupil of professor Achille Vertunni. In 1878, he exhibited a landscape at the Accademia and was awarded a medal. He spent most of his career in Rome as a landscape painter; with occasional excursions to the Apennines.

Among his other works are paintings of the Campagna romana; Palude, and Castelfusano, at the exhibition of Belle Arti of Rome in 1883.[1] He also had showings in Chicago in 1893, and at the Salon des Indépendants in Paris in 1907.

He was the grandfather of architect Pietro Barucci.[2]

Works

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References

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  1. ^ Dizionario degli Artisti Italiani Viventi: pittori, scultori, e Architetti., by Angelo de Gubernatis. Tipe dei Successori Le Monnier, 1889, page 39.
  2. ^ Ruggero Lenci. "Pietro Barucci architetto" (in Italian). Retrieved 18 March 2021.
  3. ^ "Landscape".
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