Seeing Through Salvador Dalí's Kaleidoscopic Eyes Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dalí I Domènech was the son of Salvador Dalí Cusí and Felipa Domènech Ferrés. He was born on the lackadaisical day of May 11, 1904. Dalí later claimed to have been named after an older brother that had died at the age of twenty-two months, but in actuality he was dubbed after his father and grandfather. Felipe is the male equivalent of his mother's name while Jacinto came from his uncle. The family lived in a small, rural town called Figueres in Spain. It was sixteen miles south of the Spanish-French border, being fed by the T