The Extraordinary Life of Salvador Dali
Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dali i Domenech was born on May 11, 1904, in the small town of Figueres, Spain, in the foothills of the Pyrenees, only sixteen miles from the French border in the principality of Catalonia. The son of a notary, he spent his childhood in Figueres and at the family's summer home in the coastal fishing village of Cadaques. His parents built his first studio in Cadaques and for most of his adult life he lived in a villa in nearby Port Lligat.
The young Dali attended the San Fernando Academy of Fine Arts in Madrid. …
