Artist

Alberto Pasini (Italian, 1826-1899)

Works (1)

Circassian Cavalry Awaiting their Commanding Officer at the Door of a Byzantine Monument; Memory of the Orient

1880

1826

SepAlberto Pasini was born in Busseto, Italy on September 3, 1826.¹

1843

At the age of 17, he enrolled in the Academy of Fine Art of Parma, studying landscape painting and drawing.¹

1852

Around 1852, Alberto Pasini presented a series of thirty lithographs depicting various castles around Piacenza, Lunigiana, and Parma.¹

1853

In 1853, his lithograph 'The Evening' gained him admittance to the Paris Salon.¹

1855

The eruption of the Crimean War offered an opportunity in 1855 for Pasini to accompany the French plenipotentiary minister to Persia.¹

1870

During the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, Alberto Pasini returned to Italy, settling in Cavoretto near Turin.¹

1899

DecAlberto Pasini died in Cavoretto, Italy on December 15, 1889.¹