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Furio Cavallini (Piombino, 10 agosto 1929 – Cecina, 2 giugno 2012) was an italian painter.

Biography
His artistic journey begins in Tuscany in the early fifties, in Florence, as assistant to the painter Giovanni Colacicchi, and as a member of the group of artists known as Pittori delle dune, whose group where part, among the other, the painters Renzo Baraldi, Silvano Bozzolini, Emilio Ambron, the draftsman and advertising man Ormanno Foraboschi and the Swiss sculptor Hubert Queloz.

In 1954 Furio decides to leave Florence to go and live in Milan, where he continues painting and works out in factory for mantain himself. In those years he frequents the sorroundings of the Accademia di Brera and of Bar Jamaica where he meets, among the other, the writer Luciano Bianciardi, with whom he will make a friendship and he will build a constant cultural dialogue. To Furio Cavallini, Luciano Bianciardi dedicates a small cameo in one of his most successful novel, La vita agra: «So our friends were always the ones, the photographers of the bar of the antilles, and some painter, like Cavallini from Piombino».

In 1956 Furio gets sick with tuberculosis and is admitted to the sanatorium of Florence.

In 1957 he wins the Fiorino Editori e Stampatori Award. Back in Piombino in the latest fifties, he meets and marries Deanna Moretti, his inspiring muse until the death.

In 1973 Furio come back in Milan with his wife and his sons Giulia and Giovanni Cavallini, where he teaches ornate and live drawing at the high school of Busto Arsizio until 1979. In 1976 he partecipates to the collective exhibition Disegno e piccola scultura of the Palazzo della Permanente with the painting Man shouting.

In 1987, after a loss of artistic inspiration, he has the chance to move to Trieste, thanks to the sculptor and painter Ugo Guarino, his friend, where Furio lives and paints in a study inside the ex-madhouse of San Giovanni Park in Trieste.

In 1997 he comes back to live with the wife in Tuscany, in Riparbella, his father's Giuseppe native country. He dies in Cecina in 2012.