Fausto Zonaro (Masi, 18 September 1854 - Sanremo, 19 July 1929) was an Italian painter. He was the first of six children of Mauritius Zonaro, bricklayer, and Elizabeth Bertoncini. He was talented as a child. He studied in the Technical Institute of Lendinara City and then at Verona, at the Academy Cignaroli directed by Napoleon Nani. Then he opened a small school of painting in Venice, but his work also frequently leaded him to go to Naples. Among the most important achievements of this period, particular emphasis has a cycle of about thirty batter with views of Naples and its surroundings for the villa of the Duke Paolo Camerini, now Villa Simes-Contarini in Piazzola sul Brenta. The turning point in the career of Fausto Zonaro happens in 1891 when he and Elizabeth Pante, his ex-students in Venice and became his girlfriend, decides to venture into the East, Istanbul, Constantinople then. In Istanbul, little by little can be known in aristocratic circles, received orders increas...