Italian painter best known for creating imaginative portrait heads made entirely of such objects as fruits, vegetables, flowers, fish, and books — that is, he painted representations of these objects on the canvas arranged in such a way that the whole collection of objects formed a recognisable li
Alberto Savinio, born Andrea Francesco Alberto de Chirico, was an Italian writer, painter and composer, brother of the more widely known Giorgio De Chirico.
Originally named Betrand-Jean Redon, Odilon was given this nickname by his mother, Odile. In his native Bordeaux, Redon began as a sculptor, learning etching and lithography from Rodolphe Bresdin. After serving in the Franco-Prussian War, he moved to Paris. He worked mostly with charcoal and litho