DRAWING ON SPAGHETTI WESTERNS
ention the American West to Italians, and they’ll likely visualize violent shootouts from the “Spaghetti Westerns” filmed in Europe in the 1960s and ’70s by such homegrown directors as Sergio Leone (), Sergio Corbucci (), Enzo Barboni () and others. Lorenzo Barruscotto understands the and ). The 39-year-old native of Asti, in northwest Italy’s Piedmont, has captured other Hollywood Western stars, as well as historical figures from the Old West. Yet becoming an artist was never one of his career goals.
