Angelo Dall'Oca Bianca was born in 1858 in Verona to a family from a humble background. In his biography written in 1897, Angelo describes his childhood until the age of fifteen as being spent in the streets of Verona and not at school. Then, because of the early death of his father, he started work doing several short-term contract jobs.

At the same time he showed a talent for drawing and painting and, helped by the sculptor Ugo Zannoni and by the director himself, Napoleone Nani, he succeeded in entering the Accademia di Belle Arti Cignaroli di Verona where he studied for two years before going to the Accademia di Venezia where he very probably studied the optional courses of nude drawing and got to know the artist Giacomo Favretto...