Alberto Ricci was a Roman artist.
He specialized in figurave sculpture with particular interest in the study of movement.

He created some sixty posters with advertising or political subjects. These included the famous calendar for the Cooperative Union of Milan in 1917 and many theater bills and postcards. 

“The more I formalize a thing, the more I give it an independent life” by Angelo Mangiarotti

Each sunset is a day in our past lives that will never return. And at every sunset I ask myself: "What good have you done today, Antoniette?" Antonietta Raphaël

Even after his death, his work became a touchstone for young Roman artists and in 1930, a large exhibition was organized by Pier Maria Bardi at the Galleria di Roma.

He was a truly great figure at the forefront of the revival of 20th-century sculpture. 

Cagnaccio delineates the sculptural form with clarity with an energy that verges on surreal hallucinations,  using color that is usually hard and glass-like, suggesting the Murano painters of the 15th century. 

The Grue family, a great dynasty of ceramic artists

In 1931 the Egyptian government chose Dante Ricci to found the Royal Egyptian Academy in Rome

Della Robbia ceramics

It was the first time I had ardently endeavoured to study from life harmonising the light and the colour of the background with the figure.

Eero Saarinen (Kirkkonummi 1910 - 1961) Great 1950s Scandinavian designer