Renato Natali (1883-1979) was born in Livorno from a modest family, where perhaps the father, hatter by profession, led him to enroll at the School of Arts and Crafts. Not too temperamentally suited to the school system began to devote himself to drawing a self-taught, and even when one of his companions urged him to attend the study of Guglielmo Micheli little and did so against his will.
His earliest known paintings date back to 1898, but the first official recognition came in 1903 with the delivery of the silver medal by the Ministry of Education, followed by his participation in the Venice Biennale.
The artist's career and life led him to travel extensively in Italy and to’ foreign, experiences that enrich the cultural baggage, during which the artist made many notes for his works, Livorno remained even if one of her favorite places, from which it departed, and from which he returned frequently.
He was a frequent visitor to the Coffee Bardi, getting involved in discussions and in the most heated moments of leisure group, members from which it was immediately recognized as a talented artist, able to translate the views of Livorno with a new language, personal and recognizable. Concorse, among others, to the realization of the decoration of the room Coffee Bardi painting some canvases.
Both for the artist devoted himself to the practice of making lithographs, engravings and etchings, that led him to participate, in 1913, The International Exhibition of Lithography, held in Brighton.
Then the artist went to Paris at the home of playwright Dario Nicodemi, where he could get in touch with the works of the great French masters and learn about some artists residing in the town of Livorno long French. While remaining connected to his style and his language was strongly attracted by the Parisian atmosphere.
In 1914 He returned to Livorno, where, greatly changed by his experiences, began to devote more consistency to the art, directing his painting of brighter colors and more vivid themes.
Around the Twenties, as well as cooperating with the weekly magazine “World”, provided numerous designs for which, participated in the formation of Group Labronico, 
present their works to the first exhibition of the new group Livorno. Followed: participation in the most important Italian exhibition events, For example, in Venice, Rome and Milan and the purchase of many of his works from the Gallery of Modern Art's most important towns. Meanwhile, driven by increased public and critical success of her artistic superiority, always accompanied by the spirit of the humble painter. Between the twenties and thirties also repeatedly exhibited at the Art Workshop of Livorno and 1930 participated with the Group Labronico occasion exhibition at the Galleria Pesaro in Milan.
During the Second World War Natali stood in Livorno, where he was greatly affected by the bombing that destroyed the birthplace, which developed into important ideas for his later works.
In the years following the conflict continued success with his exhibitions by participating in major events throughout the peninsula, opportunities to celebrate the artist's works that continued even after his death in 1979, through personal and retrospective dedicated to him.
Painting simple, direct, Perhaps due to his character and his self-taught training, Renato Natali make an artist whose talent was soon recognized by his contemporaries and new generations. In his works is found to recover the memory of the old collective Livorno, with his views, its lanes and lights, able to understand in depth the true character of the city. His art, characterized by extreme originality, remains suspended between past and present as, never go out of fashion and being so ever-present. Certainly influenced by his personal experiences and travels abroad, especially in Paris, starting the tradition postmacchiaiolo, Natali can make places and people through a quick brushstroke, built through bright colors, the bold color contrasts.
