Pio Sanquirico

Pio Sanquirico (Gudo Visconti, Austrian Empire 1847– Milan, 1900) was an Italian painter.

In 1880 he was invited to the National Exposition of Fine Arts of Turin, where he exhibited In Time of Peace.

In 1881 he exhibited three more paintings, Alla frutta, Panfilo Castaldi at the Court of the Sforza and Discovery and Delusion in Turin.

The same year he displayed Una scoperta; Da Monza a Sesto, and a series of studies at the Expo of the Society for the Encouragement of the Fine Arts in Florence.

His masterpiece is considered The Forbidden Fruit, originally displayed at the National Artistic Exposition in Venice in 1887.