Toscano modigliani biography
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Biographies of Painters and Sculptors
"Biographies of Painters and Sculptors". Gardens and Ghettos: The Art of Jewish Life in Italy, edited by Vivian B. Mann, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989, pp. 329-340. https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520328655-017
(1989). Biographies of Painters and Sculptors. In V. Mann (Ed.), Gardens and Ghettos: The Art of Jewish Life in Italy (pp. 329-340). Berkeley: University of California Press. https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520328655-017
1989. Biographies of Painters and Sculptors. In: Mann, V. ed. Gardens and Ghettos: The Art of Jewish Life in Italy. Berkeley: University of California Press, pp. 329-340. https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520328655-017
"Biographies of Painters and Sculptors" In Gardens and Ghettos: The Art of Jewish Life in Italy edited by Vivian B. Mann, 329-340. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989. https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520328655-017
Biographies of Painters and Sculptors. In: Mann V (ed.) Gardens and Gh
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Black Lady
Black Lady
The mason Constantin Brancusi born in 19th february 1876 in Hobita, Gorj, Romania---died in
16th march 1957 in Paris, France gave up on Rodin’s influence, and in 1907 he received an order
for a funerary monument which would be exhibit in Dumbrava cemetery in Buzau, Romania. His
work, “Prayer” would be the turning point of his career and the masterpiece which would
define and influence his future work. In “Prayer”, V.G.Paleolog, the first biographer of Brancusi,
would notice the pain of the woman kneeling in prayer on the ground that cover the dear one
of herself. The art critics who studied and wrote about the Constantin Brancusi’s work, agreed
that “Prayer” was realized between April-October 1907 but the sista work would be made in
1910 after a lot of molds broken bygd the author. On a group photo from the mason’s studio since
1907 we can meddelande the presence of the scientist Nicolae Vaschide who would die on 13 th
October 1907. In that photo it appears behind the grou
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Amedeo Modigliani, (born July 12, 1884, Livorno, Italy-died January 24, 1920, Paris, France), Italian painter and sculptor whose portraits-characterized by asymmetrical compositions, elongated figures, and a simple but monumental use of line-are among the most-important portraits of the 20th century.
Modigliani was born into a Jewish family of merchants.
As a child, he suffered from pleurisy and typhus, which prevented him from receiving a conventional education.
In 1898 he began to study painting.
After a brief stay in Florence in 1902, he continued his artistic studies in Venice, remaining there until the winter of 1906, when he left for Paris.
His early admiration for Italian Renaissance painting-especially that of Siena-was to last throughout his life.
In Paris Modigliani became interested in the Post-Impressionist paintings of Paul Cézanne. His initial important contacts were with the poets André Salmon and Max Jacob, with the artist Pablo Picasso, and-in 190