Riccardo Tommasi Ferroni is one of the greatest exponents of contemporary international figuration. His courtly expressive language and high technical mastery are qualities that are difficult to find in other masters of this second half of the century.
Born in Pietrasanta on 4 December 1934, his activity as a painter is grafted on to a family artistic tradition dating back to the end of the seventeenth century. The father, the sculptor Leone Tommasi, will transmit to the young son the sense of the dignity of artistic work and the passion for drawing. This education will soon become a real vocation, personally deepened through the study and recovery of the illustrious past: from the Mannerist and Baroque tradition, to the eighteenth century, up to the most disturbing twentieth century results. His first training is based on these premises, which took place in a refined and cultured family environment, which will also welcome the artistic story of his brother Marcello - heir to the family sculptural tradition - and, the future one, of his sons Giovanni and Elena.
After graduating from high school in Viareggio, Riccardo Tommasi Ferroni studied in Florence at the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy, also attending the Academy of Fine Arts. After a period of training in Tuscany, he moved to Rome to improve In 1965 he was present for the first time at the IX Quadrennial in Rome, an experience that was repeated in 1972 and 1986, and, again in 1965, he participated in the IV Biennial of Contemporary Art in Paris at the invitation of the critic Fortunato Bellonzi.
In 2000 he died in Camaiore leaving us a very important pictorial legacy.
