People
Here you can read the biographies of the most important men and women who marked Bologna's history.
Many of them are famous all over the world and others were loved in their ancient times.
Discoverers, artists, politicians, open-minded people who were born in Bologna and they managed to
change the world.
Approfondimenti
10/11/2009
Born in Bologna into a family of musicians, Guido Reni was the son of Daniele Reni and Ginevra de’ Pozzi. As a child of nine, he was apprenticed under the Bolognese studio of Denis Calvaert.
18/11/2009
Morandi was born in Bologna, Italy. In 1907 he went to study at Accademia di Belle arti . The school, which based its traditions on 14th century painting, taught himself to etch by studying books on Rembrandt.
The works of his formative years were related to Cèzanne and to Cubism, with a brief digression into a Futurist style.
13/11/2009
However, in the latter city, he received excellent teaching in physics and electrical engineering, respectively, by Professors Giotto Bizzarrini and Vincenzo Rosa, who also gave private lessons. Also at Leghorn, was an important meeting with an old telegraph operator who taught him the Morse code
