Amedeo Modigliani
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Amedeo Clemente Modigliani was an Italian painter and sculptor of the École de Paris who worked mainly in France. He is known for portraits and nudes in a modern style characterised by a surreal elong
Modigliani c. 1918
Modigliani's birthplace in Livorno
Self portrait, 1899, private collection
Portrait of Pablo Picasso, 1915, private collection
Père Lachaise Cemetery
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Père Lachaise Cemetery is the largest cemetery in Paris, France, at 44 hectares.
Amedeo Modigliani
…her parents' home. There, inconsolable, she threw herself out of a fifth-floor window, killing herself and her unborn child. Modigliani was buried in Père Lachaise Cemetery. Hébuterne was buried at the Cimetière de Bagneux near Paris, and it was not until 1930 that her embittered family allowed her body to be moved to rest…
Père Lachaise, Chemin Errazu
The House of Père François de la Chaise, Mont-Louis (17th century)
The cemetery, an English-style park, with the tomb of Héloïse and Abélard (top right) (1815)
Crematorium and columbarium building