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Giorgio Morandi
Italian painter
Giorgio Morandi (July 20, – June 18, ) was an Italian painter and printmaker widely known for his subtly muted still-life paintings of ceramic vessels, flowers, and landscapes—their quiet, meditative quality reflecting the artist's rejection of the tumult of modern life.
Biography
Morandi was born in Bologna, Italy, to Andrea Morandi and Maria Maccaferri, eldest of the family of five sons and three daughters.[1] He lived first on Via Lame where his brother Giuseppe and his sister Anna were born.
The family then moved to Via Avesella where two other sisters were born, Dina in and Maria Teresa in After the death of his father in , the family moved to Via Fondazza and Giorgio became the head of the family.[2]
From to , he studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna ('Academy of Fine Arts of Bologna').
At the Accademia, which based its traditions on 14th-century painting, Morandi taught himself to etch by studying b