Amedeo_Modigliani_-_a_Jewish_French_Artist

Amedeo Modigliani - a Jewish French Artist Amedeo Modigliani was an Italian painter and sculptor. He is among the most important of the 20th century. His life is one of the greatest tragedies in art. He was born on July 12, 1884 to a Sephardic Jewish family in Livorno (Leghorn), Italy. He was raised in a Jewish ghetto. His father was a businessman and his brother, Vittorio Emanuele Modigliani, was in active Socialist leader. He became ill in January 1920 and died ten days later of tubercular meningitis. He died a pauper on January 24, 1920 at 35. His family was poor but they had prosperous relatives so that the boy lacked nothing. He attended gymnasium, showed signs of tuberculosis at 17 and spent the winter on the Isle of Capri. After suffering from pleurisy and typhus in 1895 and 1898, he was forced to give up a conventional education, and it was then that 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 well equipped with money from his uncle. He attended art classes amedeo, modigliani, paintings, paris, jewish, artists, art, french, school, one, lines, cubism, world, known, jacques, fauvism, color, amedeo, years, winter, vivid, very, through, techniques, sinuous, seen, sculptures, sculptor, planes, painting, painted, original, nudes, nude, life, january, influenced, greatest, foreigners, family, elegant, drunkenness, different, died, century, berthe, became, away, attended, artist, among