The small, charming room above the Tourist Office, at the main entrance of the Carrarese Castle of Este (whose restoration was completed in 2001, as part of the broader conservative restoration of the entire city walls) is dedicated that year to the painter Delmo Veronese and converted into an exhibition hall.
Delmo Veronese was born on February 13, 1920, in Ospedaletto Euganeo. During his school years, he coincidentally met the sculptor Gino Vascon, later becoming his student and starting on the path that would lead him to become a well-known painter and artist. He has always been a traveler, initially out of duty: the war took him to Libya, Tunisia, Greece, and Germany. He then moved to Bologna, where he attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Giorgio Morandi's engraving school. In those same years, he learned portraiture and fresco techniques from the Bolognese painter Amleto Montevecchi. Thanks to his portraits, he gained considerable success and fame in various countries and, in particular, won a prestigious 1st prize in London for a portrait of Winston Churchill. He completed his training in Paris at the Ecole Italienne d’Art Appliqué, directed by Gino Severini and his assistant painter Riccardo Licata. It was in Paris that he became interested in Geology and began to frequently visit Natural Science Museums. His exhibitions sparked considerable interest, as he started to display not only paintings but also mineralogical and paleontological specimens that he collected during research in Germany, England, France, Switzerland, and Italy. This passion for fossils led him to discover the territory of Bolca, and he subsequently received the coveted "Bolca, Laguna di pietra" award from A.I.A.B. (International Association of Friends of Bolca). Later, he resumed his studies on the origins of the Euganean Hills; in Este, he presented an artistic-scientific review of paintings inspired by them and his finds. The latter would be donated to the Province of Padua and kept in the Paleontological Museum of Cava Bomba in Cinto Euganeo. He passed away in May 2001, expressing, a few months earlier, his "immense sorrow at having been abandoned by the desire to paint."
