Eugenio Zampighi (Modena, 1859 – Maranello, Modena, 1944) was an Italian painter and photographer.
He enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Modena at a very young age and from his early history paintings on he was influenced by the verist Modenese painter Giovanni Muzioli. After winning the Poletti Prize for painting in 1880, he had the opportunity of continuing his studies first in Rome and later in Florence where he settled permanently in 1884. During the 1880s, he began to produce a repertoire of genre scenes, which had an extraordinary success on the art market and brought him international commissions.
His intense work as a photographer was for the most part geared to his painting and took place mainly in his studio with the aid of models in peasant costume or the dress of the common people. After taking these photographs the artist used them to create a joyous and idyllic image of Italian rural life, devoid of any hint of social criticism, which was so greatly appreciated by foreign tourists that this led him to produce a series of the same successful stereotypes right into the early decades of the 20th century.