Nino Caffè - Born 1909 in Alfedena, Italy - Died 1975 in Pesaro, Italy.

Caffè completed his elementary studies in L'Aquila, and in 1920 his family moved to Ancona, where he received his first painting lessons from Ludovico Spagnolini.

In 1930 he moved to Pesaro and became part of the lively cultural and artistic life of the city, and met various local artists Bruno Baratti, Werter Bettini, Ciro Cancelli, Alessandro Gallucci, Aldo Pagliacci, Achille Wildi.

By 1931 he began to exhibit and in 1938 he participated in the Venice Biennale, in which he obtained a purchase prize from King Vittorio Emanuele III; in 1935 he graduated from the Istituto Statale d'Arte of Urbino, and in 1943 and 1944, taught "figura".

Caffè spends the war period in Urbino, a walled Italian city, as a guest of the Benedetti family. It is from their house, located in front of the Urbino Cathedral / Duomo di Urbino, that he sees the first priests transit, a motif that will characterize his future painting.

Caffè then learned to pattern his works with allusive but descriptive elements that led to his own stylistic trademarks.

The subjects of his paintings often included robed priests who were such an important presence at the Duomo di Urbino. These he depicted engaged in humorous, unlikely, or inappropriate activities or situations for priests.