Alberto Pasini - Artist Info

About Alberto Pasini

  • Biography

    Alberto Pasini was an Italian painter. At the age of two years he lost his father Joseph, and his mother Crotti Adelaide Balestra led him to Parma, to the house of his uncle Antonio Pasini, painter and collaborator of John Bodoni. At 17 he enrolled at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Parma, choosing the Landscape section. He was then directed to lithography* by the director of the academy, the engraver* Paolo Toschi. Among his early works, a series of thirty lithographs of the castles of the Duchy of Parma and Piacenza (1850-51).

    He took part in the War of Independence as a soldier in the column of Modena. After staying for a short time in Turin in 1851, he went to Geneva and then to Paris, where he was di...

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