Son of Raffaele and Agnese Grilli, Filippo Anivitti was born in Rome on December 4, 1876 and died in Rome on August 4, 1955. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, with Filippo Prosperi, holder of the chair of figure. He then attended the evening courses of Alessandro Morani, at the Industrial Artistic Institute. At the beginning of his artistic career he was attracted to divisionism; but it is only a transitory phase, which is nevertheless useful for refining the sensitivity to the chromatic range.