Full Name | Amedeo Clemente Modigliani |
Date of Birth | 12 July 1884 |
Place of Birth | Livorno, Kingdom of Italy |
Date of Death | 24 January 1920 |
Place of Death | Paris, France |
Resting Place | Père Lachaise Cemetery |
Education | Accademia di Belle Arti, Florence |
Known For | Painting, sculpture |
Notable Works | Redheaded Girl in Evening Dress, Madame Pompadour, Jeanne Hébuterne in Red Shawl |
Movement | School of Paris |
Partner | Jeanne Hébuterne (1917–1920, his death) |
Children | 4, including Jeanne Modigliani |
Early Life | Born into a Sephardic Jewish family in Livorno, Italy |
Family Background | Descended from an intellectual, scholarly family with a history of money-lending |
Financial Hardship | Experienced bankruptcy due to economic downturn |
Relationship with Mother | Close relationship; she taught him at home until the age 10 |
Health Issues | Battled pleurisy, typhoid fever, and tuberculosis throughout his life |
Influence of Mother | Instrumental in his pursuit of art as a vocation |
Quote from Mother’s Diary | “Perhaps an artist?” at age 11 |