Elio Bartolini (Conegliano 1922 – Varmo 2006) was a writer, essayist, poet, screenwriter, author, and literary and artistic critic. He spent his childhood and a significant part of his life in the Friulian lowlands, where his family moved and where he set some of his stories, and where his Friulian poems and collections of poems were born. The Bartolini villa in the small village of Santa Marizza di Varmo, where he retired to find tranquillity for his lyrical and narrative inspiration, is the origin of the 20th-century Art Collection donated to the museum by his daughter Olga, which forms the Art Collection of the City of Codroipo.
The Bartolini Section has been curated by Giancarlo Venuto as a recreation of the writer’s study at the Villa Santa Marizza, where he enjoyed meeting his friends and admirers and surrounded himself with works by well-known Friulian, Venetian, national, and international painters. The collection of approximately 70 works is presented in two areas, the right gallery and the left gallery, featuring authors and painter friends from Central Friuli, Eastern Friuli, Friuli beyond the Tagliamento, and Veneto, all connected to the writer by a deep cultural and friendly bond. There are two portraits of Bartolini by Mario Albanese, works by Zavagno, Ciussi, Aulo, Altieri, Mocchiutti, Ceschia, Barborini, Perusini, Falaschi, on the left Baldan, Tramontin, Cragnolini, Bottecchia, Tubaro, Toni Zanussi, Masi, and the Spanish artist Antoni Tapies.
The images
