Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, was born on May 11, 1904. Dalí's older brother, also

named Salvador (born October 12, 1901), had died nine months earlier. Dalí was a skilled artist, best

known for the strange images in his surrealist work. His painting skills are often thought to be

inspired by the influence of Renaissance masters. His most famous work was completed in 1931. Dalí's

large artistic range includes film, sculpture, and photography. Dalí was highly imaginative, and also had

a habit of doing very unusual things in order to draw attention to himself. This sometimes angered

those who loved his art as much as it annoyed his critics, since his attitude sometimes drew more

attention than his artwork. Dalí attended drawing school. In 1916, Dalí also discovered modern painting

on a summer vacation. The next year, Dalí's father organized an exhibition of his charcoal drawings in

their family home. He had his first public exhibition at the Municipal Theater in Figueres, Spain in 1919.

In February 1921, Dalí's mother died of breast cancer. Dalí was sixteen years old. His father then

married his mother’s sister, Salvador’s aunt. On January 23, 1989, he died of heart failure in Figueres at

the age of 84. The location is across the street from the church of Sant Pere, where he had his baptism,

first communion, and funeral, and is three blocks from the house where he was born.