{{short description|Italian artist and painter}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2026}} '''Roberto Ferri''' (born 1978) is an Italian artist and painter from Taranto, Italy, who is deeply inspired by Baroque painters (Caravaggio in particular) and other old masters of Romanticism, the Academy, and Symbolism.
==Biography== Ferri graduated from the Liceo Artistico Lisippo Taranto in 1996, a local art school in his hometown. He began to study painting on his own and moved to Rome in 1999, to increase research on ancient painting, beginning at the end of the 16th century, in particular. In 2006, he graduated with honours from the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome.
His work is represented in important private collections in Rome, Milan, London, Paris, New York, Madrid, Barcelona, Miami, San Antonio (Texas), Qatar, Dublin, Boston, Malta, and the Castle of Menerbes in Provence.<ref>[https://jkkfinearts.blogspot.com/2008/07/roberto-ferri.html JKK Fine Arts, Gallery of Modern Symbolism: Roberto Ferri] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110708044048/http://jkkfinearts.blogspot.com/2008/07/roberto-ferri.html |date=8 July 2011 }}</ref><ref>{{in lang|it}} [http://www.robertoferri.net/bio.html Roberto Ferri - Biography at robertoferri.net] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190531124957/http://www.robertoferri.net/bio.html |date=31 May 2019 }}</ref> His work was featured in the controversial Italian pavilion of the Venice Biennale 2011,<ref>Anita Pepe [http://www.artribune.com/2011/06/benedetta-biennale/], "Benedetta Biennale", Artribune, 23 June 2011.</ref> and has exhibited at Palazzo Cini, Venice, in the Kitsch Biennale 2010.
In 2021, on the occasion of the 700th anniversary of Dante Alighieri's death, he created ''Il Bacio di Dante e Beatrice'' (''The Kiss of Dante and Beatrice'' in Italian), a work that seals the sublimation of a kiss that never happened, with the painter's choice of Italian model and actor Edoardo Sferrella as a reference for the figure of the Supreme Poet;<ref>{{cite web | url=https://abruzzolive.it/edoardo-sferrella-dopo-lamica-geniale-protagonista-di-un-thriller-prodotto-tra-cina-e-italia/ | title=Edoardo Sferrella, dopo "L'Amica Geniale", protagonista di un thriller prodotto tra Cina e Italia | access-date=2022-05-15 | archive-date=2022-05-12 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220512192341/https://abruzzolive.it/edoardo-sferrella-dopo-lamica-geniale-protagonista-di-un-thriller-prodotto-tra-cina-e-italia/ | url-status=dead }}</ref> the painting was commissioned by Magnum for the MagnumXDante campaign in partnership with the Scuderie del Quirinale,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://ilbaciodidante.com/ |title=Home |website=ilbaciodidante.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.foodaffairs.it/2021/10/18/magnum-chiude-il-progetto-magnumxdante/ | title=Magnum chiude il progetto MagnumXDante con una mostra alle Scuderie del Quirinale | date=18 October 2021 }}</ref> and exhibited at Palazzo Firenze in Rome.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.lifestar.it/2022/02/04/108527/roberto-ferri-pittore-opere-il-rito/ | title=Roberto Ferri: Tutto quello che c'è da sapere sulla sua arte | date=4 February 2022 }}</ref>
==Bibliography== * [https://books.google.com/books?id=l9yFPgAACAAJ&dq=roberto+ferri ''Roberto Ferri: oltre i sensi'' by Roberto Ferri, Fabio Isman], Italian Cultural Institute (London, England), Palazzo del Vittoriano (Rome, Italy), Italian Cultural Institute (New York, N.Y.), 2009; {{ISBN|88-572-0211-9}}.
==See also== * List of Italian painters * Baroque painting * The Kitsch Movement
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==External links== * {{in lang|it}} [http://www.robertoferri.net Roberto Ferri - Official website] * {{in lang|it}} [http://robertoferripittore.blogspot.com Roberto Ferri at blogspot.com] * {{in lang|it}} [http://www.accademiabelleartiroma.it Academy of Fine Arts in Rome]
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