Fabio Fabbi was an Italian painter working in the Orientalist tradition. Born in Bologna, Italy in 1861, he began his artistic career by studying at the Accademia Di Belle Arti in Florence in the 1880s. He would gain considerable popularity for his exoticized, Neoclassical paintings, usually depicting Middle Eastern and North African street scenes and featuring harem women, dancers, and Muslim warriors. Fabbi's work was considered more commercial than many of his peers, resulting in the artist’s fiscal prosperity and his frequent contributions to exhibitions in Turin, Milan, and Florence. He died in 1946.