Bartolomeo Bezzi

Bartolomeo Bezzi was born in Fucine di Ossana (Trento), then in the Austrian Empire.

Having lost his father as a child, Bezzi lived with an uncle and enrolled at the Brera Academy in Milan at the age of twenty, exhibiting for the first time in 1878.

He won the Fumagalli Prize in 1882 and the following year he took part in the Esposizione di Belle Arti di Roma, receiving general acclaim for his landscape painting.

Dividing his time between Milan, Verona and his native region of Val di Sole, he experimented with life painting.

During the second decade of the 20th century he lived first in Rome and then in Verona, finally settling in Clès, in Val di Non, where he died in 1923.