LIDO BETTARINI is an Italian Artist Author, born in Tuscany in Sesto Fiorentino,
February 2, 1927.
Very young, he decided to work in ceramics where he excelled in order to pay for studies.
LIDO BETTARINI studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence, Italy in the 1950s.
Maestro, his works of art appear in museums and galleries in Italy and abroad;
He is a member of the Academy of Sciences of Rome, was one of the founders of the Academy "Simone Martini" in Ancona;
In the 70s, he gave free rein to his mystical vein with large canvases of Sacred Art, among which we can mention a Christ 'Crucifix' in the church of Santi-Fiorentini and a San Giuseppe Artigiano in Querceto.
In 1984/85, he produced a Via Crucis (Stations of the Cross) for the Abbey of Vallombrosa, exhibited at the Cathedral of Monte-Carlo in the 1990s.
He has covered many square meters of major hotels in Sorrento with paintings, has exhibited in Montreal in Canada, in France, in Cannes, Strasbourg, Paris, in Germany Baden-Baden, Munich, Stuttgart, in Spain Madrid, in Belgium Brussels, in Monte-Carlo, in the Canaries Marbella and in Switzerland Lugano, he won more than twenty national first prizes in Italy, exhibited in his major cities Rome, Milan, Naples, Florence, Venice, Cagliari, Livorno, Pisa , Bari etc.… and in the arc of its sixty years of activity we can count more than eighty
personal exhibitions.
In 1986 he received the commission to make the official portrait of Pope John Paul II and in 1989 he wrote an autobiographical book “Angeli e Demoni” remaining for fourteen weeks in the bestseller of the five best-selling books.
Passionate about cinematography, he has produced various television films for TV; he won a national prize in Viareggio for a documentary on the carnival, painted for the Saltino church the life of San Giovanni Gualberto, Benedictine monk, founder of the Vallombrosian order, six huge paintings for fifty linear meters of painting.
In 1991, he had the honor of exhibiting his paintings in the Ghirlandaio museum and, in 1995, he was invited to exhibit his works at the European Parliament in Strasbourg. In the meantime, naturally, he continued his daily work as a painter of landscapes and seascapes which make him one of the most sought-after artists of the Italian and international public.