Background
She was born in Turin, Italy to parents who were Sephardi Jews.
She was born in Turin, Italy to parents who were Sephardi Jews.
In the late 1920s she studied under Felice Casorati. Giorgio de Chirico wrote the first monograph on Levi-Montalcini in 1939, noting "her preferences for solid construction, large surfaces.. and tendency to draw attention to the fantastic aspect of reality".
She studied engraving with Stanley William Hayter following World World War World War II Hayter also trained her in automatic writing and gestural abstraction.