Alberto Pasini (Busseto, September 3, 1826 - Cavoretto, December 15, 1899) was an Italian painter.
At the age of two years he lost his father Joseph and mother Crotti Adelaide Balestra led him to Parma, in the house of his uncle Antonio Pasini, painter and collaborator of John Bodoni. At age 17, he entered the Academy of Fine Arts in Parma, choosing the Landscape section. He was then directed to lithography by the director of the academy, the engraver Paolo Toschi. Among his earliest works, a series of thirty lithographs castles of the Duchy of Parma and Piacenza (1850-51).
Took part in the first war of independence as a soldier of the column of Modena. After staying for a short time in Turin, in 1851 he went to Geneva and then in Paris, where he was directed by the study of Toschi Henriquel Dupont, who introduced him to renowned watercolorist and printmaker Eugene Ciceri. In 1854 it passed in the study of Théodore Chassériau, which he enhanced the value in the propensity for oil painting and began Orientalism. In March 1855, the intervention of Chassériau, she should be aggregated as a draftsman in a diplomatic mission of the French government in Persia, Turkey, Syria, Saudi Arabia and Egypt. During that trip made a sixty studies and many drawings, which were the basis of the works of such realistic-style exotic first made his fortune in France and then in Italy.
His works are kept in museums and art galleries around the world, including the Gallery of Modern Art in Turin, Milan, Florence and Rome, the National Gallery, the Museum and the Pinacoteca Stuard Cariparma Foundation of Parma, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Arts in Philadelphia and the auction house Christie's in London.