Romolo Bernardi Biography
Romolo Bernardi was an Italian painter born in Asti in 1875.
In 1890 he was hired by the Doyen lithographic factory and at the same time enrolled in evening courses at the Albertina Academy in Turin, where he studied with G. Grosso. .
He painted landscapes and figures, with a strong coloristic sensitivity.
Encouraged by his teacher, he dedicated himself mainly to portraiture and in 1898 he won the Artists' Prize at the National Exhibition of Turin with "the Portrait of the Father", a large oil with which he obtained the "Artists' Prize". production, alongside that of landscapes, including the Ligurian one, and portraits of animals.
In 1900, at the Venice Biennale, he presented a triptych entitled “Punishment”. Thanks to his expertise in portraiture, learned in the studio of Giacomo Grosso, he made himself noticed at the Paris Salon of 1913 with a "Self-portrait" of 1911 and with the "Portrait of his wife" of 1913. In 1904 he participated in the Exhibition Italian "Italian Exhibition Earl's Court" in London exhibiting the painting "The smoker".
In Rome, he opened an art school in Via Ludovisi and joined the group "I XXV della Campagna Romana". For ten years he was vice president of the "Amateurs and Connoisseurs of Fine Arts" society in Rome. He also became artistic advisor to Queen Margherita of Savoy, directing restoration work on wall paintings at Palazzo Venezia.
In 1921, he was attracted to sculpture (bronze castings and marble sculptures) to which he dedicated all his energies for about eight years. In 1938 Romolo Bernardi returned to Turin where he continued to produce and where he died in 1856.
