Artist: Rubens Santoro (1859-1952, Italian)
Title: (Venice)
Medium: oil on canvas
Size: 16" x 26" (40.6 cm x 66 cm) canvas size
Date: 1900 circaThis oil on canvas is a beautiful and rare early (19th C) painting by the well known painter of Venetian Scenes. He was the son of Giovanni-Battista Santoro and a student of Domenico Morelli at the Academie des Beaux-Arts of Naples. He showed in Naples, Turin, Rome and in foreign countries, notably in London and the Salon des Artists Francais de Paris, where he obtained an honorable mention in 1886. He is known almost exclusively for his animated views of Venice.