Roberto Ferri, “Struggle IV”, Oil on Canvas, 2013

Roberto Ferri is an Italian artist and painter from Taranto, Italy. He graduated in 1996 from the Liceo Artistico Lisippo Taranto, a local art school in Taranto. Ferri moved to Rome in 1999, to do research on ancient painting, particularly those works at the end of the 16th century. He graduated with honors from the Academy of Fine Arts, Rome, in 2006.

His work is deeply inspired by the Baroque painters, particularly Caravagggio, and other masters of Romanticism, the Academy style, and Symbolism. Ferri’s work is represented in private collections and was featured in the Italian pavilion of the 2011 Venice Biennale.