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Amedeo Modigliani

1. Amedeo Modigliani Haunting elongated, mask-like portraits.

2. Family & Early Life ● Born into a Jewish family in Livorno, Italy ● His family was persecuted for their religion, grandmother came to Italy for religious freedom ● Mother, Eugenie, was fluent in many languages, founded a talmudic study school ● Father, Flaminio was a businessman and engineer “He behaves like a spoiled child, but he does not lack intelligence. We shall have to wait and see what is inside his chrysalis. Perhaps an artist?” -Eugenie Garsin Modigliani’s birthplace, Livorno, Italy

3. Art School ● At 14, Modigliani had typhoid fever and raved that he wanted to see the paintings in Palazzo Pitti and Uffizi in Florence. ● When he was well, his mother took him to Florence, and enrolled him with the best painting master in Livorno, Guglielmo Micheli. ● He worked in Micheli’s Art school from 1898 to 1900. ● He was heavily influenced by artwork of the Renaissance. ● 1902 - studied in Florence at the Academia di Belle Arti The Tuscan Road, 1899 The Bearded Man, 1905

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Amedeo Modigliani

Italian painter and sculptor (1884–1920)

"Modì" redirects here. For the 2024 biographical film, see Modì, Three Days on the Wing of Madness.

Amedeo Clemente Modigliani (; Italian:[ameˈdɛːomodiʎˈʎaːni]; 12 July 1884 – 24 January 1920) was an Italian painter and sculptor of the École de Paris who worked mainly in France. He is known for portraits and nudes in a modern style characterized by a surreal elongation of faces, necks, and figures — works that were not received well during his lifetime, but later became much sought-after. Modigliani spent his youth in Italy, where he studied the art of antiquity and the Renaissance. In 1906, he moved to Paris, where he came into contact with such artists as Pablo Picasso and Constantin Brâncuși. By 1912, Modigliani was exhibiting highly stylized sculptures with Cubists of the Section d'Or group at the Salon d'Automne.

Modigliani's oeuvre includes paintings and drawings. From 1909 to 1914, he devoted himself mainly to sculpture. His main subjects were portraits and full figures, both in the images and in th

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