Sirio Bellucci Biography
Sirio Bellucci (Belvedere di Fabriano (15 km away), 1924 – Macerata, 29 September 2013) was an Italian painter. At the age of 14 he moved to Fabriano, where he worked as a waiter for the family of a surgeon. Then he moved to Rome, where he worked as a boy in a grocery store. After a short time, however, he returned home and then moved to Cerveteri. In 1943 he was called to war in Sicily, but he returned home earlier than expected, managing to avoid the charge of desertion. After the conflict he joined the Police and worked first in Savona, then in Genoa. It was in the Ligurian capital that Bellucci began to frequent framers' shops that exhibited and sold works by some amateur painters. He dedicated himself to conceptual art and later to symbolist and expressionist painting. He has exhibited in Macerata, Rome, Bari, Ancona, Gubbio, Tolentino, Fabriano and Matelica. In 1975 the magazine Flash Arte dedicated its color cover to him. Three of his paintings were acquired by the municipal art gallery of Macerata. In 1954 he married and had two daughters. A few years later he obtained a transfer from Genoa to Macerata. At the age of 49 he left the Police. He died at the age of 89, on 29 September 2013 in Macerata.
