Her fraternal twin sister was the neurologist Rita Levi-Montalcini, who won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1986.
[4] Thanks to the support of fellow artist and friend Marisa Mori Levi-Montalcini was able to continue living in Florence during the establishment of the Italian racial laws from 1938 to 1943.
Following the end of the war, she resumed her exhibiting career with a solo show at Galleria Il Fiore in Florence.
Interested in post-Cubism, Levi-Montalcini later abandoned figuration for Concretism and by 1950 she joined the Movimento Arte Concreta.
[3] Giorgio de Chirico wrote the first monograph on Levi-Montalcini in 1939, noting "her preferences for solid construction, large surfaces .