Artist

Fausto Zonaro

1854–1929 · born in Masi · died in Sanremo

Fausto Zonaro was an Italian painter born in Masi, near Padua, in 1854. He moved to Constantinople in 1891 and became court painter to the Ottoman sultan Abdul Hamid II, painting scenes of the city and its history. He returned to Italy and died in Sanremo in 1929.