Roberto Natale Patrizi (Agrà)

On the second floor of Palazzo Cassi, some rooms house a series of temperas and graphics, on permanent display, that Roberto Natale Patrizi, in art “Agrà”, wished to donate to the community of San Costanzo.

On the second floor of the Cassi palace, several rooms house a permanent exhibition of tempera paintings and graphics that Roberto Natale Patrizi (Agra') wanted to donate to the San Costanzo community. Patrizi (or Agra', as he sometimes likes to sign his works) is not a “naive” painter or a simple self-taught “landscape painter”: he has a respectable educational and cultural background behind him. Born in Mondolfo in 1941, he specialised in the art of mural painting (or fresco painting, if you prefer) in Florence at the age of twenty (or a little more) and subsequently participated in exhibitions in Italy and abroad. Now his paintings and graphics are part of public and private collections and can be admired in museums and galleries in Italy and other countries. But Patrizi has always liked to play the field: renewing the techniques of Renaissance frescoes on the walls of churches, public buildings and even on walls en plein air; experimenting in graphics with new materials and personal technical solutions; assembling tempera inside old window frames salvaged from ruined farmhouses; creating watercolour labels for a few bottles of wine he himself produces. However, always within a conception of art sheltered from fashionable appeals and commercial compromises and expressing himself always and only on the wave of intellectual curiosity and poetic play and with the eyes of a boy thirsty for colours.