Cornelio Bertazzoli

Cornelio Bertazzoli (Cremona, 1936 – 2015) was a painter deeply rooted in his native land and in the intimate atmospheres of everyday life. He began painting at a very young age, and as early as 1950 he was noted at the Olimpiadi Culturali di Roma. In 1960 he took part in the Biennale di Gorizia, and in 1985 he was awarded the prestigious Premio Agrumello.

His painting, intense and authentic, drew on landscapes, still lifes and scenes of simple life, observed with an affectionate gaze and rendered on canvas with vibrant immediacy. In his works, light becomes the protagonist: it breaks down contours and merges with the chromatic material, giving rise to images that combine realism and poetry.

Of him it has been written that 'it is always a pleasure to observe with how much love the Maestro translates landscapes, still lifes and scenes of everyday life into art': a love that emerges in every brushstroke, capable of making the beauty of small things both familiar and universal.

Today his works remain a testament to an authentic painterly sensibility, in which the silence of the fields, the freshness of a flower or the colour of a fruit become visual poetry.