Luigi Toro

Luigi Toro (3 January 1835, in Sessa Aurunca – 13 April 1900) was an Italian painter and patriot.

[1] In 1853, he attended the Royal Institute of Fine Arts of Naples, and there studied under Giuseppe Mancinelli, Domenico Morelli, and Bernardo Celentano.

[2] From 1856 to 1859, he lived in Florence, where he frequented the Caffè Michelangiolo and met painters of the Macchiaioli movement.

With the Italian unification, he was made a major in the National Guard, and contributed to the efforts to repress brigandage in the South.

[6] In 1877 at the National Exposition of Naples, he exhibited: Agostino Nifo at the Court of Charles V. he also painted The Death of Pilade Bronzetti at Castel Morrone, in memory of an officer who died fighting at the Battle of Volturno;[7][8][9] and Taddeo da Sessa at the Council of Lyon defends the Emperor Frederick II.