art history
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talian painter, Salavatore Postiglione painted with a Realist style. Originally from Naples, Italy he lived from December 20, 1861 – November 28, 1906. He grew up in a family of painters. His father Luigi Postiglione, his brother also named Luigi, his nephew Luca, and his uncle Raffaele were also painters. His father Luigi painted sacred subjects. Salvatore studied underneath his uncle Raffaele, as well as Domenico Morelli at the Neapolitan Institute of Fine Arts. Morelli’s style was a strong influence on Salvatore, as he tended to favor similar mystical and morbid spiritual religious subject matter. However, he also painted youthful biblical paintings which are displayed at the Institute of Fine Arts. He frescoed the halls of Borsa of Naples and Miramare Castle in Trieste, Italy; which is a method to quickly 10
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