Our Lady of Sorrows, Enrico Ravetta (1864 - 1930)
Enrico Ravetta (Milan, 1864 - there, 1930) Our Lady of Sorrows Oil on canvas, 57.5 x 42.5 cm - with frame 54.5 x 39.5 cm The painting is the work of Enrico Ravetta, a Milanese artist who works assiduously in the city Christmas. Pupil in Brera of the verist Giuseppe Bertini, then of Roberto Casnedi, Ravetta started his own exhibition activity in 1884. Preferably devoted to the art of the portrait, he refined the descriptive ability skillfully characterizing his own painting, as can be seen from the portrait of Amilcare Ponchielli . Ofelia exhibited in 1886 on the occasion of the Braidian competitions; he alternated the production of portraits with interior scenes, such as the present one, and themes from