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At the Well

Market Day Constantinople

The Watermelon Merchant

Visiting The Pottery Vendor

Caravan in the Desert

On the banks of the Bosphorus

Outside The Mosque

The Fruitmarket

An Arab Caravan,

Cairo

The Desert Encampment,

The falconers

Alberto Pasini (Busseto, September 3, 1826 - Cavoretto, December 15, 1899) was an Italian painter.

Biography

At the age of two years he lost his father Joseph and his mother took him to Adelaide Crotti Crossbow Parma, the home of his uncle Antonio Pasini, a painter and collaborator of John Bodoni. At 17 he entered the Academy of Fine Arts in Parma, choosing the Landscape Section. He was then directed to lithography by the director of the academy, the engraver Paolo Toschi. Among his early work on a series of thirty lithographs castles of the duchy of Parma and Piacenza (1850-51).

He took part in the War of Independence as a soldier of the column of Modena. After staying for a short time in Turin in 1851 he went to Geneva and then Paris, where he was addressed by the study of Toschi Henriquel Dupont, who introduced him to famous watercolorist and printmaker Eugene Ciceri. In 1854 it passed in the study by Theodore Chasseriau, which enhance the propensity for his oil painting and Orientalism began. In March 1855, the intervention of Chassériau, she should be aggregated as a draftsman in a diplomatic mission of the French government in Persia, Turkey, Syria, Saudi and Egypt. During that trip made a sixty studies and many drawings, which were the basis of realistic works of the kind of exotic mold made his fortune first in France and then in Italy.
Arab caravan (1866)
On the banks of the Bosphorus (1869)

He received many honors: In Paris, he was awarded the Medal of Honor for the painting, the Shah of Iran gave him the official title ddel Leo and the Sun, Napoleon III decorated with the Legion of Honor (1878), the King of Italy Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus.

His works are preserved in museums and art galleries around the world, including the Gallery of Modern Art in Turin, Milan, Florence and Rome, the National Gallery, the Museum and the Pinacoteca Stuard Cariparma Foundation of Parma, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Arts in Philadelphia and the auction house Christie's.

In Parma, he dedicated "Avenue Alberto Pasini", a road that connects Oltretorrente Barrier Avenue Santa Croce with Piacenza.
Works

Note: this list is incomplete.

View of the Bay of Naples (1878)
The Mosque in Cairo Moristan
Scene of a road to Damascus (1861)
Dans le bazar de Constantinople
Falcon hunting (1862)
The Grand Canal of Venice
The walk harem (1878)
View of Moncton (1892)
Inside the manor Issogne (1881)
Rio Santa Maria Formosa (1898)
Caravan prepare for departure (Parma, Stuard Gallery)
Classical ruins in the desert (Pinacoteca Stuard)
Persian cavalry patrol (Pinacoteca Stuard)
A caravan in the desert (Florence, Gallery of Modern Art)
Bring a bazaar (Rome, National Gallery of Modern Art)
The Grand Canal of Venice (National Gallery of Modern Art)
Bazaar in Constantinople (London, Gallery of Modern Art)
A caravan stop in Persia (London, Gallery of Modern Art)
Falcon hunting in the area of ​​Lake Urmiah (Turin, Gallery of Modern Art)
The courier of the Desert (New York, Gallery of Modern Art)
The Nile (New York, Gallery of Modern Art)
Constantinople (New York, Gallery of Modern Art)
The Alhambra in Granada (Turin, Gallery of Modern Art)
In front of the building (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of the Arts).

Bibliography

Roberto Lasagni Biographical Dictionary of Parma, vol. III, Parma, 1999.

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