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Birth
1885 (Florence, Italy)
Death
1966 (Woodstock, New York)
Lived/Active
New York/Illinois / Italy
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| Arriving in the United States in 1913 from Italy where his father was a
fresco painter, Alfeo Faggi had studied with his father and in his
hometown of Florence for five years at the Academia Belle Arti. A
story about him is that at the Casa Buonarroti, he studied a sculpture
by Michelangelo and was told by a guard that Michelangelo had said
"the artist should represent things not as they are but as they ought
to be." For Faggi, this was a revelation that greatly influenced
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