Angelo Accardi was born in Sapri, a small town in the south of Italy. He spent a short interval at the Art Academy of Naples, and set up his personal studio in the early nineties in Sapri to embark on his pursuit of depicting figures against a social background. His debut on the artistic scene was strongly characterized by what in Italian Art is referred to as “figura,” a representation of the human body, as well as by pictorial and symbolic art.