Nicolò Barabino (San Pier d'Arena, 13 June 1832 – Florence, 19 October 1891) was an Italian painter and set designer. Native of San Pier d'Arena (today's Sampierdarena, a municipality independent of Genoa at the time), after having begun his studies in Genoa at the Ligustica Academy of Fine Arts (where he was a fellow student of Maurizio Dufour, with whom he always remained in report) won a scholarship to study at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence (1857), where his pictorial style matured. Read the full biography
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Nicolò Barabino (San Pier d'Arena, 13 June 1832 – Florence, 19 October 1891) was an Italian painter and set designer. Native of San Pier d'Arena (today's Sampierdarena, a municipality independent of Genoa at the time), after having begun his studies in Genoa at the Ligustica Academy of Fine Arts (where he was a fellow student of Maurizio Dufour, with whom he always remained in report) won a scholarship to study at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence (1857), where his pictorial style matured. He received numerous commissions in Italy and abroad: in the churches of the Ligurian Riviera (Sampierdarena, Santa Margherita, Sestri Levante, Rapallo, Camogli), in France, Spain, Belgium and the Netherlands. He mainly painted large frescoes of historical or religious subjects, according to the fashion of the time. Returning to Florence, he participated in the decoration of the new façade of the cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore, designing the cartoons for the mosaics of the lunettes of the portals.
