[5][6] Salvatore took part in the XXIV e XXVIII Venice Biennale and in the V, VI and VIII Rome Quadriennale exhibitions.

[3][5] An "exponent of a deeply popular and socially engaged form of painting"[7] and a major figure in the cultural and social life of her hometown, she owned the Il Pincio Gallery in Piazza del Popolo.

[6][9] She also served as professor of history of costumes at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia.

[3] Married and separated from writer and film director Pasquale Festa Campanile,[4] she died of a brain aneurysm on 18 May 1978 at the Policlinico Umberto I in her hometown.

[6] She has been described as "a larger than life persona" who "made her one of the most talked-about cultural figures of her day".