View of Diu Fort

Fausto Sampaio was born in Alféolas, Anadia in 1893. The hearing disability that struck him at 22 months of age made him deaf-mute, but this didn’t prevent him from having a great sensitivity to express himself through painting. He reaches the peak of his artistic career in the decades of 30 and 40 of the 20th century, when he carried out much of his works in the overseas provinces and that earned him the title of Pintor do Imperio. In some provinces he was only passing through, in Macau and S. Tomé, he took longer and became a resident. Pintor do Império, he painted all as former portuguese colonies, demonstrating that this national presence was palpable and concrete in those distant places, establishing a cultural link of Portugal mainland and the Old Colonies in nationalistic language, using Naturalism as Artistic Current which, at the time, assumed the mirror of the homeland. A dialogue West-East with colors of a Globality of centuries. Thus adhering to Orientalism.