Background
De Nobili"s father was from an old Italian family and her mother was from a Jewish Hungarian family.
De Nobili"s father was from an old Italian family and her mother was from a Jewish Hungarian family.
In the 1930s, she studied with the artist Ferruccio Ferrazzi at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome.
She was noted for her work at Vogue magazine and her collaborations with directors such as Luchino Visconti and Franco Zeffirelli. An uncle was the painter Marcel Vertèson She settled in Paris in 1943, and this would be her home for most of her life up until her death in 2002.
Illustration In Paris, De Nobili began doing illustrations of the haute couture collections for various magazines, especially Vogue.