Natale Attanasio
Born	24 December 1845
Died	1923  (aged 77–78)
Resting place	Campo Verano

Natale Attanasio (1845 – 1923) was an Italian painter. He painted diverse subjects from period pieces, Oriental fantasies, altarpieces, portraits, and genre works, and worked both in fresco and oil.

In 1874, Attanasio won a stipend from his native Catania to study in Naples at the Institute of Fine Arts under Domenico Morelli, and then moved to Rome. His painting Sunt lacrimae rerum. Le pazze, depicting women at an insane asylum, won the gold medal at the 1891 Exposition of Palermo. Among his other works Bernardo Palissy and the Orfano dell'Annunciata. He died in Rome. ^[1]

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  Portrait of young lady
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  Women at the fields
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  Interior of Harem
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  Temptation of St Jerome
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  The admirer