Perhaps it is the name. Amedeo Modigliani - it sounds like an elegiac melody, like a well-chosen name for a tragic, poetic figure in a novel, and perhaps it also has something to do with the fact that Modigliani, who has always fired the imagination, was not a figure who called forth factual and sober description. And this sensual-sounding name is not even a pseudonym. Amedeo Modigliani is the name of the artist who was born on July 12, 1884, in Livorno (Leghorn), Italy, into a bourgeois Jewish family. His portraits and nudes were to become some of the most popular pictures of the twentieth century. No other painter of modern times has been as heavily burdened with as many legends, myths and clichrs as Amedeo Modigliani.

Fruitful Ideas

Columns of Tenderness

He was Our Aristocrat

The Second Temple of Beauty

Nothing But a Mute Affirmation of Life

Life and Work