An exhibition of work by Amedeo Modigliani in Genoa ended dramatically last month, when 21 paintings—around a third of the works in the show—were seized from the Palazzo Ducale by Italian police on ...

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Amadeo Modigliani is your quintessential doomed romantic. The Italian painter and sculptor lived hard and fast—his life a swirl of excess in early 20th-century Paris—before dying young and destitute, ...

More than a century after the death of Amedeo Modigliani, a consortium of art historians and conservation experts convened by the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia is discovering hidden aspects of the ...

Born and bred in Livorno, Italy, Amedeo Modigliani’s artistic oeuvre stands out for his controversial elongated and asymmetrical portraits, imbued with modernity. Best known as a painter, he was a ...

Jean Cocteau had his portrait painted by Modigliani in 1916, and later wrote: “It does not look like me, but it does look like Modigliani, which is better.” There is no mistaking his meaning: ...

More than a century after the death of Amedeo Modigliani (1884-1920), a consortium of art historians and conservation experts convened by the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia are discovering hidden ...

Amadeo Modigliani was the model bohemian artist: handsome, promiscuous, addicted to drugs and alcohol and women, and dead at the age of 35 of tuberculosis. The day after, Jeanne Hebuterne, his 21-year ...

Narrow faces, haunting eyes, elongated necks … all well-known characteristics of an Amedeo Modigliani masterpiece. Less well known? The brains behind that brush. At the Barnes Foundation in ...