Edoardo Ettore Forti Pompeian figures painted terracotta diameter 37 cm - in frame 52x52 cm Signed bottom right: E. Forti. Within a quadrangular frame in black lacquered wood. Edoardo Ettore Forti is the author of neo-Pompeian genre paintings, active in Rome between the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century. His painting is entirely focused on the reproduction of ancient settings in the wake of the success achieved by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836-1912) after the discoveries in Pompeii

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