A Life Between Continents Aquiles Badi was a twentieth-century Argentine painter born in Buenos Aires. His formative years were shaped by a dual existence, having spent his childhood in Milan, Italy, where he studied at the Regio Collegio Tomasseo. After earning a Technical License in 1909, he returned to Buenos Aires to study at the National Academy of Fine Arts, forming close friendships with painters Horace Butler and Héctor Basaldúa. His career was marked by extensive travel and residence in major European art centers. Following his studies in Paris at the Julian Academy and the Le Fau…