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Mario Bardi (January 1922 – 7 September 1998) was an Italian Realist painter. He was born in
Palermo Palermo ( , ; scn, Palermu , locally also or ) is a city in southern Italy, the capital (political), capital of both the autonomous area, autonomous region of Sicily and the Metropolitan City of Palermo, the city's surrounding metropolitan ...
, in the Mediterranean island of
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in southern Italy, in January 1922. In 1947 he gave up his studies in engineering and went to the
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, where he graduated in 1951. In the same year he moved to
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, in
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in north-west Italy. In 1954 he was in
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, in
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. He moved to
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, in
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in northern Italy, in the early 1960s. Bardi won the Premio Suzzara in 1963 and the Premio Tettamanti in 1964 and again in 1966. He died in Milan of a stroke on 7 September 1998. The Sicilian writer
Leonardo Sciascia Leonardo Sciascia (; 8 January 1921 – 20 November 1989) was an Italian writer, novelist, essayist, playwright, and politician. Some of his works have been made into films, including '' Porte Aperte'' (1990; ''Open Doors''), '' Cadaveri Eccellen ...
wrote of Bardi: "there is nothing in his painting which Sicily cannot explain".


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Bardi, Mario 1922 births 1998 deaths 20th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Painters from Palermo 20th-century Italian male artists Italian contemporary artists