Enrico Pollastrini

Enrico Pollastrini (15 June 1817, Livorno – 19 January 1876, Florence) was an Italian history painter and art school director.

From 1835 to 1841, he created thirty-two scenes from The Betrothed; a project commissioned by the French entrepreneur, François de Larderel [fr], to decorate his mansion in Livorno.

In 1845, Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany, commissioned him to create a scene showing a family being saved from flooding along the Serchio.

It depicted the fall of the Republic of Siena in 1555, when many of its inhabitants fled after its occupation by Emperor Charles V. It was lost during World War II.

His students there included Egisto Ferroni, Francesco Gioli, Tito Lessi, Luigi Bechi, Odoardo Borrani, Cesare Bartolena, Niccolò Cannicci, Vittorio Matteo Corcos, and Stefano Ussi.