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 * Article= Oscar Ratti
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Oscar Ratti
Oscar Ratti (September 11, 1928 – August 11, 2005) was a renowned artist, intercollegiate greco-roman wrestling champion, and a member of the championship judo team for the University of Naples. He is best known for his illustrations in brush painting style depicting martial art warriors performing various jutsu.

Biography
Oscar Ratti was born near Lerici, Italy in a small hamlet called San Terenzo. Ratti moved to Naples when he was young and where he spent his youth. Once older, he eventually began studying law at the University of Genoa then moved back to complete his degree in classical studies and law from the University of Naples. While enrolled at the University of Naples, Ratti became an accomplished judoka and greco-roman wrestler.

Ratti later came to New York City, where he enrolled in graduate studies at Columbia University studying classical languages. It was here where he met his wife, Adele Westbrook, where they both shared interests in the rituals of ancient civilizations. Once in New York, Ratti and his wife began to study aikido with NY Aikikai founder Yasuo Ohara, one of the first instructors to teach Aikido in New York.

Style
While in New York, Ratti refined his style of expressing physical conflict with graphical arts. He then began to collaborate with his wife in integrating his drawings with both technical and literary works. This is most apparent in his first book, Aikido and the Dynamic Sphere, where he illustrated complete aikido techniques described by Westbrook.

In his later works, Ratti illustrated in the brush painting method popular in eastern art. His last three illustrated book collaborations, Tales of the Hermit Volumes I, II, and III.

Later Ratti became a commercial illlustrator and design consultant for printed and web-based publications.

co-author of over XX books of which he was the principal illustrator