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
Sicily
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in southern Italy, in January 1922.
In 1947 he gave up his studies in engineering and went to the
Accademia di Belle Arti di Palermo
The Accademia di Belle Arti di Palermo ("Academy of Fine Arts of Palermo") is a public tertiary academy of art in Palermo, Sicily
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, where he graduated in 1951. In the same year he moved to
Aosta
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, in
Val d'Aosta
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in north-west Italy. In 1954 he was in
Turin
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, in
Piemonte
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. He moved to
Milan
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, in
Lombardy
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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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1922 births
1998 deaths
20th-century Italian painters
Italian male painters
Painters from Palermo
20th-century Italian male artists
Italian contemporary artists