Fausto Zonaro
Fausto Zonaro | |
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Born | |
Died | 19 July 1929 Sanremo, Italy | (aged 74)
Nationality | Austrian until 1866, Italian from 1866 |
Known for | Painting |
Movement | Orientalism[1] |
Spouse |
Elisabetta Pante
(m. 1892; sep. 1920) |
Children | 2 |
Fausto Zonaro (18 September 1854 – 19 July 1929) was an Italian painter, best known for his realist style paintings of life and history of the Ottoman Empire.
Life
Young life and early art career
Fausto Zonaro was born in
He actively displayed works in exhibition and gained respect of critics. He painted mainly genre works in oil and watercolor. In 1883 at Milan, he exhibited: Le rivelatrici napoletane; Da Sant'Elmo, and Al Pincio; in Rome, the canvases Passa la vacca; La sofferente; Le cucitrici napoletane, and Il saponaro. In 1884, at Turin: Tempesta; Primo nato; Primo tuono, and the Zoccolaro of Naples; and in 1887 at Venice: In attesa; Al Redentoretto, and Lavoratrice di perle. La casa Camerini of Padua once possessed a banditore; and two canvases: I pigiatori and In medio stat virtus.[3]
The turning point in Zonaro's career occurred however in 1891, when he fell in love with photographer Elisabetta Pante (1863-1946), a pupil of his in Venice, and together they traveled to Istanbul, capital of the
Constantinople
In 1892, Zonaro and Pante married, and lived in the Constantinople neighborhood of Pera. The couple had two children together, a son named Fausto Jr. and a daughter named Yolanda.[4]
Over time he gained patronage in Çonstantinople's aristocratic circles. While teaching painting to the wife of
The Sultan later commissioned a series of paintings depicting events in the life of the 15th-century Ottoman sultan, Mehmed II. As court painter, Zonaro viewed himself as the successor to the Venetian painter Gentile Bellini, who had been commissioned by Mehmed II to paint his portrait over 400 years earlier.[5]
Return to Italy
Zonaro remained in Istanbul until 1909, but after the Young Turk Revolution that overthrew his patron Abdulhamid II and the shift to constitutional monarchy he returned to Italy. There would be no further Ottoman court painters after him.[2] He settled in Sanremo where, until his death, he continued to produce small paintings of the Italian Riviera and the nearby French Riviera, as well as nostalgic scenes of the Bosphorus to assuage his yearning for Istanbul.
In 1920 he separated from his wife and began living with his daughter Yolanda. Nine years later, he died. He is buried in the Foce Cemetery in Sanremo. On his gravestone, beneath an Ottoman tughra, it states that Zonaro was the court painter of the Ottoman Empire.[6]
Artistic work and reputation
A prolific artist who created hundreds of works, Zonaro painted
Today, most of Zonaro's works are displayed in Istanbul's leading museums, including in the Topkapı Palace, the Dolmabahçe Palace and the Istanbul Military Museum. Others of his works can be seen in the private Sakıp Sabancı Museum[7] and Pera Museum. A number of his paintings belong to private collectors in Turkey.[6]
Gallery
Some of Zonaro's paintings are in the
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Türkisches Mädchen
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10th of Muharram
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Mehmed II at the Siege of Constantinopole
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The Attack (1896)
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The Daughter of the English Ambassador Riding in a Palanquin
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Woman Playing a String Instrument
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Fishermen Bringing in the Catch (1891 - 1910)
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Istanbul, Winter
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Mehmed II Entering Constantinople
See also
References
- ^ "Turkish News - Latest News from Turkey".
- ^ a b c "Fausto Zonaro - Pittore di corte del sultano di Turchia".
- ^ Gubernatis, Angelo De; Matini, Ugo (1889). Dizionario degli artisti italiani viventi, pittori, scultori e architetti (in Italian). Tipi dei successori Le Monnier.
- ^ https://mydailyartdisplay.uk/2022/10/01/fausto-zonaro/
- Constantinople - City of the World’s Desire 1453-1924 by Philip Mansel
- ^ a b c d "Osmanlı Araştırmaları - FAUSTO ZONARO". Archived from the original on 2003-02-23.
- ^ "Sakıp Sabancı Museum Web Site - Calligraphy Collection and Painting Collection". Archived from the original on 2010-06-10. Retrieved 2010-07-09.
Sources
- Fausto Zonaro page it:Fausto Zonaro on the Italian Wikipedia
- Fausto Zonaro page tr:Fausto Zonaro on the Turkish Wikipedia (Vikipedi)
- Studies site Osmanlı Araştırmaları
- faustozonaro.it, site dedicated to the artist (in Italian).
- Constantinople City of the World’s Desire 1453-1924 by Philip Mansel
- Un pittore Veneto Bizantino, Cronache della civiltà elleno-Latina, Rivista Quindicinale, Volume 11, Fasc VII-VIII, (1903) author Angelo De Gubernatis, page 123–125.
External links
- Site containing numerous paintings by the artist, accessed by clicking on the blue titles on the right
- Three Zonara paintings at Art Renewal Center.
- Another painting at Art Renewal Center.