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Franco Gentilini was born in Faenza in 1909. He began working at a very young age as an apprentice cabinetmaker and carver. She studies Industrial design and plastic at the Tommaso Minardi municipal school. In 1928 he went to Paris and then moved permanently to Rome where he frequented the historian Aragno coffee where he met artists and writers such as Cagli, Mucci, Falqui, Sinisgalli. He participates in Biennials and Quadrennials and creates public works, easel works, compositions inspired by popular country festivals. His technique involves a preparatory background river sand and consists of a combination of drawing and painting. Among his typical figures there are ccathedrals, baptisteries, city walls, jugglers, landscapes, women with spool-heeled boots, bicycles, carts, cats and lions.
