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Enrico Albrici (Vilminore di Scalve, 19 November 1714 – Bergamo, 1773) was an Italian painter. Enrico Albrici (but the painter's surname is often modified: Alberici, Albricci, Albrizzi; and also the name in Arrigo, even if it is believed to be correct Enrico Albrici, signature that the painter used to autograph his works, excluding the Latin one of the frescoes di Capo di Ponte was born in Vilminore (Val di Scalve) to Maffeo and Margherita, and was immediately baptized in the town parish. Read the full biography

Enrico Albricci Biography

Enrico Albrici (Vilminore di Scalve, 19 November 1714 – Bergamo, 1773) was an Italian painter. Enrico Albrici (but the painter's surname is often modified: Alberici, Albricci, Albrizzi; and also the name in Arrigo, even if it is believed to be correct Enrico Albrici, signature that the painter used to autograph his works, excluding the Latin one of the frescoes di Capo di Ponte was born in Vilminore (Val di Scalve) to Maffeo and Margherita, and was immediately baptized in the town parish. Given his strong talent for drawing and painting, he was sent to the workshop of Ferdinando Cairo, a painter, at a young age. of Casal Monferrato for about three years (presumably from 1730 to 1733), these becoming the most important years of his training, which he later completed as a self-taught man. His relationship with his family was quite fragmented: for a long time his wife and their children lived with him parents and the painter's sister (probably almost demented) in Vilminore, while her husband shuttled between the city of Brescia and the municipalities that required his services as a painter. The situation was re-established only when in 1763 the whole family moved to Bergamo to follow their son Giovanni who was to become a priest. Here the painter certainly found a familiar serenity. The series of pranks began which brought him great economic well-being, but also strong work stress, which occasionally resulted in moments of strong euphoria where he stopped his work to dedicate himself to having fun. Albricci became a painter appreciated by his contemporaries and by numerous collectors, first in the province of Brescia, thanks to his works on sacred themes and subsequently in the city of Bergamo thanks to his bambocciate, works which were also sent to Milan and Turin. However, his style, partly self-taught, reached levels of excellence in bambocciate (first by copying and then creating his own style), so much so did he experience little creative evolution in sacred themes, as demonstrated by his latest works in the parish of Zogno, where he can find numerous similarities with his early works. He died at the age of 59 in Bergamo after severe pneumonia and was subsequently buried in the church of Sant'Andrea.