 Ever resourceful, Modigliani's mother used her social contacts to establish a school and, along with her two sisters, made the school into a successful enterprise.Amedeo Modigliani was the fourth child, whose birth coincided with the disastrous financial collapse of his father's business interests.Amedeo's birth saved the family from ruin; according to an ancient law, creditors could not seize the bed of a pregnant woman or a mother with a newborn child.