Fausto Zonaro (18 September 1854 – 19 July 1929) was an Italian painter, best known for his realist style paintings of life and history of the Ottoman Empire.

Maurizio intended that his son should also be a mason, yet at a young age, Fausto showed a great ability at drawing.

La casa Camerini of Padua once possessed a banditore; and two canvases: I pigiatori and In medio stat virtus.

While teaching painting to the wife of Munir Pasha, the Minister of Protocol, Zonaro and Pante got to know the important artistic figures of Istanbul of that time, including Osman Hamdi Bey.

In 1896 he was nominated as the court painter (Ottoman Turkish: Ressam-ı Hazret-i Şehriyari) to Abdulhamid II thanks to the intervention of the Russian ambassador who had introduced the sultan to Zonaro's work, Il reggimento imperiale di Ertugrul sul ponte di Galata (in English: The Imperial Regiment of Ertugrul on the Galata Bridge), which he then purchased.

[5] Zonaro remained in Istanbul until 1909, then returned to Italy after the Young Turk Revolution that overthrew his patron Abdulhamid II and made Ottoman Empire a constitutional monarchy.