Giorgio Morandi

Giorgio Morandi was born of Andrea and Maria Maccaferri in Bologna on 20 July 1890. He was the first of five children: in addition to his brother Giuseppe, who died in 1909 at age of eleven, he had three sisters to whom he was very close throughout his life: Anna, Dina and Maria Teresa. In 1906 the young man went to work at his father's business office, but his artistic tendency led him to enroll in the Bologna Academy of Fine Arts the following year, where he began with introductory-level courses and then continued with specialty Courses in 1909. His classmates included Osvaldo Licini and Severo Pozzati.