Piero Bertelli was born in Montelupo Fiorentino (Florence) in 1940. At the age of fifteen he was hired by the prestigious “Marinelli” foundry in Florence as waxes retoucher and model creator. He studied drawing with the most popular painters in the area and from 1959 to 1961 went to the Nude School at the Fine Arts Academy in Florence. Before the mould art Piero Bertelli learned the casting “lost wax” method, the retouching refinements and the patina secrets. At the foundry’s studio, in Via Corridoni, sculptors like Berti, Moschi, Innocenti, Tofanari and many others used to ask Piero Bertelli to retouch their waxes and to follow the casting of their works. Through this long work, side by side with the sculptors, this “Montelupino” fifteen years old boy, while working his still “tender” wax, expressed his love for the plastic harmony of the shape and a lot of attention for the realistic forms. This love pushed the young kid to study with the sculptor Terreni, who helped him after the hard hours spent in the foundry, to face the three years of the Free Nude School at the Florentine Academy, where Professor Settala was still teaching. Bertelli managed the “Marinelli” Foundry until 1998, when he retired: today he carries on sculpting and co-operates with the foundry on a free-lance basis. In 1970 he received the National Sport and Art prize at the Congress Palace in Florence and the “Lyceum” Prize for the Art Sculpture in Milan in May 1984. His most important figurative works are: the life-size of the sitting woman ”Patrizia” or the woman making up titled “Woman at the mirror”, the fountain of the “two marlins”. He exhibits permanently in the prestigious Peter Bazzanti & Son Art Gallery in Florence.