Raffaele Frumenti was born in Rome in 1922, in Borgo Pio, an ancient quartier near St. Peter. Painter for vocation, he manifested the ability to express himself artistically since a child, when he, just for fun, used to construct tiny theatres, taking care of scenography and painting the background. In the first years of post-war period he painted and made many different jobs. In this period, that he himself defined the yellow period, his pictorical production showed traces of the stay in Sicily; Piazzetta del Sud (Little square in the South) - Il ragazzo con il somarello (The boy with the little donkey) - Le comari (The wives) - Uomini di paese (Countrymen) - Cantastorie (Ballad singer) these are some titles of the works of that period. The predominant colors: golden ochre, brown, intense green and limy white.