Domenico Riccio (1516 – 1567)

• Commonly known as Domenico Brusasorci.
• Was an Italian painter in a Mannerist style.
• Domenico Riccio was born in Verona in 1516.

• The name "Brusasorci," which means "rat burner," comes from his father.

• Riccio first apprenticed with his father.

• Later, he has been reported to have trained with Giovanni Francesco Caroto and Niccolò Giolfino.

• Brusasorci’s frescoes in the choir vault of Santo Stefano, Verona, painted after 1543, include a Battle of an Angel and a Demon. 

• In 1552 Brusasorci painted an altarpiece of Saint Margaret for Mantua Cathedral.

• Among Brusasorci’s finest works are the fresco decorations of the Palazzo Fiorio della Seta, Verona; the frieze of nymphs in terra verde from the façade that faced the River Adige survives (Verona, Castelvecchio). 

• Brusasorzi prepared his paintings with drawings in pen and ink and modello drawings in chiaroscuro. 

• Brusasorci depicted the ceremonial Cavalcade of Charles V and Clement VII in the Palazzo Ridolfi-Dalisca.

• Riccio died in Verona in 1567.

• His pupils were his son Felice, Giovanni Battista Zelotti, Bernardino India, and Paolo Farinati.

• His son Felice painted for some years in Florence.

• Two other children were also painters: Giovanni Battista and Cecilia Brusasorci.

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