1918
Antonio Bueno was born on the 21st. of July , son of a writer and journalist, Javier Bueno, then posted to Berlin as war correspondent to the Madrid daily "ABC", and of Hannah Rosjanska.

1925
He spent his infancy in Spain but then the family moved to Geneva where, having attended the lyceum, Antonio enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts; he lived in Le Courbusier's Maison de Verre; he joined the Communist youth organisation..

1938
Made his debut in Paris exhibiting illustrations of L.F. Celine's "Le voyage au bout de la nuit" at the Salon des Jeunes.

1940
In January 1940 he moved to Italy with his brother Xavier and their mother. Reacting against the tuition of a late-Cézanne-like type he had received at the academy, he took an interest in the techniques of the primitive Flemish masters and the surrealists. He returned to Switzerland alone when Italy entered the war, to settle the question of his military service at the Spanish consulate in Geneva.

1941
Having settled the matter of his military service and obtained a new passport from the Spanish authorities, he left Switzerland and returned to Florence; he made friends with Annigoni and other anti-fascists. He married Evelina Hay in the Church of San Domenico at Fiesole.

1941-1942
PHeld his first exhibitions in Milan (Manzoni and Ranzini galleries) and Florence (Botti gallery) with his brother Xavier and painted very polished pictures, mostly still lives and portraits. His first son, Francesco Saverio, was born.

 1947
Came into contact with "I Pittori Moderni della Realtà" (Modern Painters of the Reality) and with De Chirico (in whose Memorie he is mentioned as one of the ten best painters he ever met) but immediately takes his distance in an open letter published in "L'Europeo" in 1948; his first invitation to the Rome Quadrennial.

  1950
Worked in Florence in the ambit of the abstract art magazine, "Numero", becoming editorial secretary ; he painted some geometrical pictures followed by his first neo-figurative works which tended to recuperate some aspects of the Italian metaphysical school; he got to know Edoardo Sanguineti and Albert Camus.

1953
Presented by Sanguineti, he held a personal exhibition at the La Bussola gallery in Turin.

1956
Exaibited compositions featuring clay pipes, egg shells and spools of twine, which the critics defined neo-metaphysical, at the Venice Biennale.

1958
Went on a study trip to the United States where he held a number of exhibitions; on his return he applied for Italian citizenship, but his request was turned down by the Italian Home Office. His daughter Maria Isabella was born.

1959
The metaphysical period of the "clay pipes" came to an end.

1961
In Florence he became one of the Quadrante team; he exhibited in Paris at the Cinq peintres de Florence , presented by G.C. Argan and at the Strozzina, where, with S. Loffredo and A, Moretti, he proposed Italy's first ever Nuova Figurazione (New Figuration) exhibition.

1962
Promoted an operative meeting between avant-garde painters, musicians and poets in Florence, and the following year, with them, he founded the Gruppo '70; with P. Scheggi and P. Manzoni he organised the first ever Italian exhibition of monochromatic painting: near-abstract pictures using of the imprinting technique.

1963
At Palazzo Strozzi, under the patronage of Florence's Municipal Authority, he organised an international "La Nuova Figurazione" exhibition; he took part in the San Marino biennial on the theme "Beyond the Informal" and presented a "Technological" exhibition with L. Pignotti and G. Chiari, at the Quadrante.

1964
Sent a selection of his works to the "España Libre" exhibition and was invited to present his "Homo Technologicus" at the first exhibition of visual poetry organised by the Gruppo '63 at Reggio Emilia; a year later, in Florence, he organised a national exhibition of show-art entitled "Mostra Luna Park" [ Fair Ground Exhibition], repeated in June 1966 at Ca' Giustinian, Venice. He created (large) works in wood representing puppet-theatre characters as well as multi-material reliefs. His third child, Tommaso, was born.

1965
At Venice's Numero Gallery presented a series of cartoon- paintings created with the collaboration of Emilio Isgrò. He carried out experiments in "audio-painting" using a typewriter; he held an exhibition at the Naples Guida Bookshop (introduction by Achille Bonito Oliva and Gillo Dorfles).

1966
With S. Loffredo he directed the Paris G 30 gallery which featured exhibitions by avant-garde Italian artists. With Umberto Eco he instituted the "Fata" anti-award. An exhibition entitled "Atti Impuri" [Impure Acts] was held in Peking.

1968
He was present (with monochromatic reliefs) at Venice's thirty-fourth Biennale (presented in the catalogue with a poem by Sanguineti, Musica Humana per Antonio Bueno) and took part in the "Sixth Annual New York Avant Garde Festival".

1969
 Presented by Lucien Goldman and Bernard Pinguad, he held a personal exhibition called "Mostra Noepassatista" [Neo-"pastist"] at the Paris G 30 Gallery in which he presented a painting entitled "Il pompiere e la modella" [ fire-fighter and model] , a fortunate theme which he continued to represent , with numerous variations on the theme to the end of his days. He announced his abandonment of Gruppo '70 and of avant-gardism in a letter to Sergio Salvi, defining himself a "neo-rearguardist" . He devoted himself from then on to the figurative representation of his famous little women, a subject he never abandoned from the on .

  1970
Obtained Italian citizenship and moved to Fiesole.

 1971
Became a professor at Florence's International art University.

1973
Held his second personal exhibition in New York, presented by C.L. Ragghianti, a considerable success.

1974 
Designed the scenery and the costumes for the ballet "Pupazzetti" [Puppets] by Alfredo Casella for Florence's Teatro Comunale.

1975
Massimo Carrà delivered a lecture on Antonio Bueno at Forte dei Marmi. An imposing monograph was published by Feltrinelli; introduced by an essay by Edoardo Sanguineti entitled Questo è questo [This is this] .

1976
Was commissioned by Siena's Municipality to paint a picture on the fifteenth of August Palio [Traditional Sienna Horse Race] . The picture, signed by Bueno and nicknamed by the citizens of Siena "Palio a fumetti" [The cartoon Palio] created a certain uproar, and was won by the Civetta ward.

1977
Founded and edited the art magazine "Visual" with the aid of Eugenio Miccini and some Gruppo '70 ex-members. Held personal exhibitions at Basle's International Fair and at the Toninelli Gallery in Rome.

1978
Dedicated himself, with increasing enthusiasm to the 'd'après', which he had begun a few years previously with his first tributes to Picasso, Campigli, Seurat and Klee. He exhibited his d'après for the first time in Florence at the Galleria Spagnoli. Fabio de Poli made a film in Bueno's studio featuring the artist dressed as a fire-fighter. He exhibited his "extinguishers" at the Studio Inquadratura 33 [Frame 33 Studio] gallery. He held a new personal at ART in Basle and travelled to Paris and Spain.

1979
In the spring he held personal exhibitions in the municipalities of San Giovanni Valdarno and Vicenza, presented by F. Menna. With the help and collaboration of Alinari, Cioni, Guarnieri and Miccini, he organised the collective exhibition "Ab Ovo" , also presented by Menna at Florence's Palazzo Vecchio. On the 7th of July his brother Xavier died after a long illness.

1981
Between April and May, invited by the Tourist Agency , under the patronage of Florence's Municipal Authority and Tuscany's Regional Council, he held an anthological exhibition to inaugurate the new gallery of modern art in Palazzo Strozzi. The then President of Italy Sandro Pertini, visited and spoke at the opening ceremony. Bueno began writing his memoirs, which remained unfinished at his death.

1982
After a ten-year absence he returned to Milan with a personal at the Centro Annunciata; he took part at the Basle, Stockholm and Frankfurt International Fairs. The Forni Gallery presented a stand devoted to him at the Paris FIAC.

1983
In September, invited by Luino's Municipal Authority he held a personal at the Civic Museum and, with his friend Piero Chiara, presented lithographs for the illustration of a story by Piero Chiara called "Pierino al mercato di Luino" [ Peterkin at Luino Market]. Simultaneously he participated in the exhibition entitled From Metaphysics to Metaphysics via Surrealism at the Paris FIAC organised by Prato's Metastasio Gallery, with a catalogue care of M. Fagiolo dell'Arco.

1984
Received invitation to the forty-first Venice Biennale. With a presentation in the catalogue by Giorgio Di Genova, he exhibited a large selection of his "D'après" , some of the most important paintings of his career. In June he took part in a retrospective of the Pittori Moderni della Realtà in the Armoury of Palazzo Vecchio, organised by Florence's Municipal authority. He died in Fiesole on the 26th of September, after a brief illness. In November a full-scale anthological show of his works was held in Bologna at the Galleria Maggiore, presented by Franco Solmi.

1986
Macerata's Modern Art Gallery, organised upon an invitation an anthology presented by the journalist Everaldo Dalla Noce, as did Massa Marittima's Art Gallery. In the months of July, August, September and October an important anthological exhibition was held by the City of Anagni, in the City Hall's Sala della Ragione where the volume "Antonio Bueno . . . o della dissacrazione oculata" by Girogio Di Genova.

1987
Between July and August : a large-scale exhibition of about 160 works (from various private Italian collections and from the family's collection) was held at the Castel Sant'Angelo National Museum under the patronage of the Latium Region and the Provincial and Municipal councils of Rome.

1988
June: an anthological showat Montepulciano's Municipal Art Gallery, organised by the town's Municipal authority, care of the Parnaso Association. July: an anthological exhibition at Cortona's Palazzo Casali, organised by Cortona's Municipality. December (1988)-January (1989): within the ambit of the XVI edition of Poggibonsi Arte he was awarded the Pennello D'Argento [ Silver Brush] Award and an anthological exhibition of his work was held in the Casa di Chiesina under the patronage of the Poggibonsi Municipal Administrative Authority and the Pro Loco organisation, with a catalogue presentation by Paolo Levi.

1989
August: an anthology was held at Campiglia Marittima's Palazzo Pretorio by the town's Municipal Authority. October: an anthological exhibition was held by the Municipality of Fiesole, care of Parnaso.

1990
January: an anthological exhibition was held at the Renzo Spagnoli Arte Gallery in Lugano, with a presentation by Mario Luzi.

1994
From July to October a large-scale anthology , with over one hundred paintings, was held at Palazzo Challand in Aosta's archaeological area, organised by Valle Aosta's Autonomous Regional Council ; on this occasion the first volume of the "Catalogo Generale delle opere di Antonio Bueno" [ General Catalogue of the works of Antonio Bueno] published by Giorgio Mondadori was presented. In the autumn of that year the exhibition was transferred to premises of the Fondazione Bandera per l'Arte at Busto Arsizio.

1996
An exhibition of some works from the "Pittori Moderni della Realtà" period were exhibited within in a collective entitled "Colloquio col visibile" [Colloquium with the visible] at Villa Renatico Martini at Monsummano Terme, under the auspices of the Ministry for the Cultural and Environmental Heritage, the Regional Council of Tuscany and the Municipal Authority of Florence.

1998
Various drawings of his were presented at a collective exhibition on "Il disegno in Toscana, 1900-1945" [Drawing in Tuscany, 1900-1945] at Villa Medicea, Poggio a Caiano.

2001
Florence, october-november: the Uffizi Royal Post Salon, anthological exhibition with seventy-nine paintings dating 1940-1984, care of the Cultural Office of the Tuscan Regional Council, the Superintendent of the Historical, Artistic and Demo-anthropological Heritage of the Provinces of Florence, Pistoia and Prato. The catalogue 'Antonio Bueno. Variations on the theme of a lucky painting' presented and editet by O.Casazza and A.Paolucci.

2002 Pietrasanta (Lucca), July - September : Antonio Bueno, other 'Variations on the theme of a lucky painting' Sala dei Putti e Sala del Capitolo, Chiostro di S.Agostino. Anthological exhibition with forty-seven paintings dating 1940-1984, organized by the Cultural office of the township of Pietrasanta, in cooperation with the Superintendent of the Historical, Artistic and Demoanthropological Heritage of the Provinces of Florence, Pistoia and Prato.Exhibition care of Ornella Casazza, Marco Moretti, Isabella Bueno. Committee scientific: Isabella Bueno, Tommaso Bueno, Ornella Casazza, Marco Moretti, Antonio Paolucci, Edoardo Sanguineti. Catalogue by Giunti, Florence.