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Roberto Ferruzzi, born in 1854 to a well-to-do widow of Sebenico, a small Italian town on the Dalmatian coast, was an educated man who studied law and art in Venice. His love for painting triumphed and he devoted his whole life to art. Before he was thirty years old he exhibited in Turin and Venice. His reputation as an artist was solidly established when in 1897 La Madonnina was first exhibited in Venice. Very little else is known about Roberto Ferruzzi. It is said that he lived in a palace but was nevertheless beloved as a neighbor and artist. He died in 1934.