Flavio Bertelli

Furthermore, he belongs to that group of landscape painters of the early 1900s of the "Bolognese School of Painting", such as Luigi Bertelli (Flavio's father), Antonino Sartini, Guglielmo Pizzirani, Giovanni Secchi, Alessandro Scorzoni and Gino Marzocchi, who painted the Emilia-Romagna landscapes, reproducing their beauties and witnessing, with the brush, the changes over time.

In 1885 he abandoned his studies to devote himself to painting and at only twenty-three he participated in the National Exhibition of "Belle Arti" (fine Arts) in Bologna.

Forced to leave the family home, he moves to an attic of Palazzo Bentivoglio in Bologna, where he later meets Alfredo Baruffi and becomes part of the cenacle of the "Giambardi della Sega", with whom he will share the brief experience of the "Academia (academy) de la Lira".

In 1903 he took part in the LXII Exhibition of the Turin by Società Promotrice delle Belle Arti (Promoting Society of fine Arts) and in 1905 he took care of the decoration of the baptistery of the church of S. Ansano in Pieve del Pino (near Bologna).

[5] In fact, the strong depressive crisis will convince him to abandon the Divisionist technique which requires maximum concentration and long times.

During the twenties Flavio made several trips between the Italian regions Romagna and the Marche: he stayed in Carpegna, in Montefeltro, in Monghidoro, Pennabilli, Modigliana, Gabicce and Cattolica.

However, there are others who from Bologna bring brushes, colors and other materials as gifts to the painter, in order to buy Bertelli's paintings at an extremely low price, leaving very little profit margin to the artist.

The depressive crisis of 1918 was followed by the gradual abandonment of the pointillist technique in favor of the recovery of the stain painting learned in the Florentine years by Telemaco Signorini.