He is born in Castell’Azzara (Grosseto) in 1946. He lives and works in Florence where in 1973 he graduated in architecture. At the beginning of the 80s he is one of the most lyrical and sensitive protagonists of Italo Mussa's Pittura Colta and participated in national and international exhibitions that brought together the painters of this group with those of Anachronism and Hypermanianism. From 1991 he dedicate himself also to sculpture by making terracotta, ceramics and bronzes. In 2006-2007 he realizes a bronze for the the square of Castell'Azzara. In 2004 the Italian Republic senator acquired one of his paintings for the permanent collection of Palazzo Madama, in the same year he painted the portrait of Giovanni Spadolini for the gallery of Senate Presidents in Palazzo Madama. In 2008, he painted the portrait of Senate President Franco Marini for the same gallery. He is mentioned under the heading Anachronism in various encyclopaedic dictionaries and with particular emphasis in the Electa encyclopaedia La Pittura in Italia: Il Novecento/2. Two important monographs are worth mentioning: Italo Mussa, Carlo Bertocci, (de Luca, Rome 1986) and Edward Lucie-Smith, Carlo Bertocci, (Il Polittico, Rome 2002).