Rosalbino Santoro

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Rosalbino Santoro (Fuscaldo, Calabria, May 15, 1858 – Brazil, around 1920) was an Italian painter who mainly painted views with people in traditional dress. His parents wanted him to become a priest, but he chose to study painting. By 1878 he received recommendations for prizes from Raffaele Postiglione, a professor at the Naples Institute of Fine Arts, and in 1879 the institute’s president Filippo Palizzi awarded him the first prize in medal for design. He donated pastel portraits of King Umberto I, Queen Margherita, and Bernardino Telesio to his hometown. In 1880, after about two years of study, he exhibited at the Promotrice of Naples; in 1881 he showed at the Milan Exhibition with several works, including Bagni di Guardia piemontese, Pagliaie di alloggio, Due amiche, and Una marina. He displayed Il Fanfulla at the Rome and Naples exhibitions. He also contributed drawings to Il Corriere del Mattino, L’Italia artistica of Florence, and Il Journal d’Italia. In the late 1880s he moved to Brazil, where he had a successful painting career. He died in Brazil around 1920.