Bernardino Palazzi was born in Nuoro in 1907.

In 1926 exhibited in Padova the large oil painting intitled "La Croce" at the Fourth International Art Exhibition "Le Tre Venezie". In 1928 he was invited to the  XVI Biennial of Venezia.

In 1929 he moved to Milan and in 1930 took part in the XVII Biennial of Venezia with three paintings.

In 1931 is summoned to the Quadrennial National Art of Rome and he will partecipate in subsequent editions until 1959. The Modern Art Museum in Berlin buys the painting " Nude on the beach" exhibited at the XVIII Biennial of Venezia.

In 1933 the painter takes part in the Italian Art Exhibition that took place at the Munich Kunstverein aristocratic society and at the exhibition of the Vienna's Palace of Arts dedicated to the most important Italian artists. 

In 1935 paints his famous oil painting called " Bagutta ", exhibited the following year at the XX Biennial of Venezia, which became a symbol of the eponymous group.

In 1941, with his work " La Bella Ninetta" takes part at the Third Exhibition of the Fascist National Union of Fine Arts; in the same year his solo exhibition at the Galleria Gian Ferrari in Milan obtained wide critical appreciation.

In 1942 the painter joins the XXIII Biennial of Venezia, while in 1943 he partecipates at the Fourth Quadrennial of Rome. 

In 1948 participates at the XXVIV Biennial of Venezia and in 1949 joins the exhibition of Sardinian artists held at the Bevilacqua La Masa foundation in San Marco Square in Venice.

In 1956 at the Paris exhibition in the halls of ENIT exposes most of its paintings with Sardinian topic, getting a great critical and public success.

 In 1959 he won ex aequo with Giuseppe Migneco the Bagutta Spotorno award; in the same year participates also to the first Regional exhibition of figurative arts in Cagliari. In 1965 gives the church of St. Ignazio in Oliena the large canvas of the "Deposition".

In 1970 completes the construction of 40 panels in distemper that illustrate the "Gerusalemme Liberata" by Torquato Tasso. 

Bernardino Palazzi died in Rome in November 1986.