Aligi Sassu

His father Antonio was one of the founders of the Italian Socialist Party (Partito Socialista Italiano) in Sassari in 1894, and had moved to Milan in 1896, where he married Pedretti in 1911.

[1] Together with his friend and designer Bruno Munari, he decided to introduce himself to the Futurism leader, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti.

After the Spanish Civil War, he started studying Vincent van Gogh and moved back to Sardinia for some time.

In 1973, he designed the scenes and costumes of Verdi's Opera the Sicilian Vespers for the reopening of the Teatro Regio in Turin.

In 1993, he completed "Miti del Mediterraneo", a 150 square meters mural for the new building of the European Parliament in Brussels.

In 1995, he exhibited at the Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art in Bergamo and was nominated Cavaliere della Gran Croce by the Italian president.

On 17 July 1999, the day of the artist's eighty-seventh birthday, a big retrospective on his work opened at Palazzo Strozzi in Florence.