Eugenio Pellini grew up in Marchirolo, in the province of Varese, and moved to Milan in 1884, where he was hosted by his elder brother, Oreste. He is therefore hired as an apprentice in the workshop of a marble worker. In the early Milanese period he approached the socialist ideas of the time and attended the Scapigliatura environment with great interest.
He enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera, where he became a pupil of Ambrogio Borghi. In 1891, after presenting the sculpture Fanciullo di Nazareth, he obtained a scholarship, thanks to which he made a long trip to Italy and spent a long period in Rome and, therefore, in Paris where he met the works of Medardo Rosso and Auguste Rodin.
In 1893 he returned to Milan, devoting hi...