Nicolò Barabino

Nicolò Barabino (13 June 1832 – 19 October 1891) was an Italian academic painter of religious and historical subjects, active in Florence and Genoa.

His initial studies were at the Genovese Accademia Ligustica di Belle Arti, under Giuseppe Isola.

He frescoed a hall in the palazzina Celesia with the following three pictures: Galileo before the Inquisition ;Piero Capponi tears up the terms offered by Carlo VIII of France, and The Sicilian Vespers.

He also provided frescoes for the Hospital of the Duchess of Galliera, and in a hall of the palazzo of signor Pignone in Genoa.

The lawyer Tito Orsini commissioned large historical canvases for his palazzo Orsini, representing: Galileo in Arcetri, Galileo ill surrounded by pupils; Columbus before Council of Salamanca, and Archimedes and Alessandro Volta.