ABSTRACT
Early Life Maurice Denis was born November 25, 1870, in Granville, France, a village on the English Channel. His father was a railway official and his mother a milliner. Soon after his birth, his parents moved to Saint-Germain-en-Laye, near Paris. In 1884, he discovered the Louvre and began taking drawing lessons. He began doing copies after the old masters and became interested in writing. He also began a journal that he was to keep all of his life. By 1885, Denis already believed that he wanted to devote his life to art and spent his summer vacation working in the studio of a Brazilian painter living in Paris. He attended the well-respected Lycee Condorcet, winning the first prize for Greek and philosophy.
