CORTONA (AR) 1883 - PARIGI (FRANCIA) 1966 Gino Severini was born April 7, 1883, in Cortona, Italy. He studied at the Scuola Tecnica in Cortona before moving to Rome in 1899. There he attended art classes at the Villa Medici and by 1901 met Umberto Boccioni, who had...
INNSBRUCK (AUSTRIA) 1917 - MILANO 2007 Ettore Sottsass was a grandee of late 20th century Italian design. Best known as the founder of the early 1980s Memphis collective, he also designed iconic electronic products for Olivetti, as well as beautiful glass and...
MANTOVA 1912 - ROMA 1995 Turcato was born in Mantua on February 19, 1912. He left his native city and attended the Venice Academy’s school of nude studies in the early 1930s before moving to Milan and finding work in the firm of the architect Giovanni Muzio in 1937....
CATANZARO 1918 - MILANO 2006 Mimmo Rotella, Italian artist, was best known for his extravagant “double décollages,” which he crafted by ripping posters (particularly movie advertisements) off exterior walls, attaching the fragments to canvases, and then tearing off...
HOMS (LIBIA) 1934 - ROMA 1998 He was born on 20 September 1934 in Homs, Libya, where his father, an archaeologist, was in charge of the Leptis Magna excavations. After his family moved to Rome, the young Schifano worked firstly as a shop assistant and then he...
MALAGA (SPAIN) 1881 - MOUGINS (FRANCE) 1973 Pablo Picasso, was born on October 25, 1881. He was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer. As one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century, he is known for...
BARCELLONA (SPAIN) 1893 - PALMA DI MAIORCA (SPAIN) 1983 Born to the families of a goldsmith and a cabinet-maker, Joan Mirò grew up in the Barri Gòtic neighborhood of Barcelona. His father was Miquel Miró Adzerias and his mother was Dolores Ferrà. He began drawing...
PIREO (GRECIA) 1936 - ROMA 2017 Jannis Kounellis was a Greek Italian contemporary artist based in Rome. A key figure associated with Arte Povera, he studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome. From 1960 to 1966, Kounellis went through a period of only exhibiting...
PISTOIA 1901 - VIAREGGIO (LU) 1980 Marino Marini was born in Pistoia on February 27, 1901. He enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence when he was only sixteen and began by studying drawing and painting; his first approach to sculpture dates from 1922. He...
VITEBSK (RUSSIA) 1887 - SAINT-PAUL-DE-VENCE (FRANCE) 1985 1887 Marc Chagall was born in Vitebsk (White Russia) on 7 July 1887, the eldest of eight children. He attended a heder, a Jewish primary school for seven/eight years and was then admitted to a public school....
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