Giorgio Morandi

Known for: still life painting of studio objects in Bologna

Giorgio Morandi spent most of his career painting and etching the same collection of dusty bottles, jugs, and containers arranged in different groupings in his studio in Bologna, developing a reductive practice of extreme concentration that had enormous influence on subsequent painters. He rarely left Bologna and refused most public engagements. His paintings — muted in palette, quiet in surface — are among the most copied and studied in twentieth-century art.