Alcoholic. Addict. Womanizer. Amedeo Clemente Modigliani’s reputation is often reduced to these brutal labels — a tortured artist archetype neatly wrapped in scandal. He died at just 35 from tuberculous meningitis, poor and largely unrecognized, having held only a single exhibition in his lifetime. And yet today, his art sells for tens of millions, hanging in the world’s most prestigious galleries.

But behind the hollow myth of Modigliani, the reckless genius was a man shaped by contradictions — and by a powerful, all-consuming love. Read more