title: Ettore Forti
text: # Ettore Forti
  
  Ettore or Eduardo Ettore Forti was an Italian painter, who was prolific in depicting realistic Neo-Pompeian scenes of Ancient Roman life and events. These subjects were popular in the late-Victorian period, as exemplified by the popularity of Lawrence Alma-Tadema.
  
  There is little definitive information available about Forti's biography. His paintings are signed with his name and Rome. Different sources can not cite a place of birth or birth date, and do not agree about a birth date. Nothing is known of his training. Many sources claim he was active a few decades before and after 1900. He exhibited in Berlin between 1893 and 1897. He exhibited at the Mostra della Romana Società degli Amatori e Cultori in 1905.
  
  One favorite topic is a salesman displaying artwork, jewelry, or rugs to well-dressed female patrician women, often in elegant settings.
  
  * Evening at the temple
  * Feast of Centaurs
  * Rug Merchant in Ancient Rome
  * Chariots racing in the Circus Maximus
  * Pompeii Street Scene
  * The Bath (?)
  * The Carpet Seller (1)
  * The Carpet Seller (2)
  * The Carpet seller (3)
  * The Carpet seller (4)
  * The Carpet Seller (5)
  * Chariot Racing
  * Racing Chariots Entering The Circus Maximus
  * Road to Pompeii
  * Steps(?)
  * The Harpist(?)
  * In A Jewelry Store
  * Detail from a Pompeii Love Song
  * In A Jewelry Store
  * Pompeii Street
  * Art Seller
  * Fruit Vendor
  * Hadrian returns from Tivoli
  * In the Roman Palace
  * Inside A Roman Villa
  * Pompeii Love Song
  * The Bedchamber(?)
  * The Embarkment of a Roman Queen
  * The Art Seller
  * Burdens(?)
  * Festival
  * Greeting The Victor
  * Rug Merchants
  * The Musicians
  * Victory
  * Arrival of Caesar
  * At the Antiquarian's
  * The Vendor of Antiquities
  * Quadriga on the Road to Pompeii(?)
  * The Carpet Seller (6)
  * Roman Street Scene
  * Interior of a Roman Building with Figures
  