Aldo Locatelli (
Bergamo, August 18, 1915 –
Porto Alegre
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, September 3, 1962) was an
Italian
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** Italians, an ethnic group or simply a citizen of the Italian Republic or Italian Kingdom
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painter. His most important works are the
frescos and panels in
churches and public buildings of
Rio Grande do Sul.
Locatelli was born in northern Italy and was interested in art from an early age. In 1948 he went to Brazil at the invitation of Don Antonio Zattera, bishop of Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul, to paint the Cathedral San Francisco de Paula de Pelotas. At that time he was working in the cathedral of Genoa, Italy.
The frescoes in the Cathedral of Pelotas and stations of the Cross in the Church of San Pelegrini in Caxias do Sul, which took ten years to complete, are considered his greatest works.
His last work was the painting of the
Sacred Heart of Jesus
The Most Sacred Heart of Jesus ( la, Cor Jesu Sacratissimum) is one of the most widely practised and well-known Catholic devotions, wherein the heart of Jesus is viewed as a symbol of "God's boundless and passionate love for mankind". This dev ...
, which was unfinished because of his death.
Gallery
Image:00locatelli-conceição.jpg, Immaculate Conception
The Immaculate Conception is the belief that the Virgin Mary was free of original sin from the moment of her conception.
It is one of the four Marian dogmas of the Catholic Church, meaning that it is held to be a divinely revealed truth w ...
Image:55-caravaggio-locatelli.jpg, Our Lady of Caravaggio
Image:69-locatelli-caxias.jpg, Last judgement
The Last Judgment, Final Judgment, Day of Reckoning, Day of Judgment, Judgment Day, Doomsday, Day of Resurrection or The Day of the Lord (; ar, یوم القيامة, translit=Yawm al-Qiyāmah or ar, یوم الدین, translit=Yawm ad-Dīn, ...
Image:03-santamariacathedral.jpg, Coronation of the Virgin
Image:Locatelli-ceia.jpg, Last supper
Image:The Last Supper - Leonardo Da Vinci - High Resolution 32x16.jpg, 400px, alt=''The Last Supper'' by Leonardo da Vinci - Clickable Image, Depictions of the Last Supper in Christian art have been undertaken by artistic masters for centuries, ...
Image:Altar da Mãe de Deus na Catedral.jpg, Church altar
External links
Locatelli's paintings - before and after restoration
1915 births
1962 deaths
Brazilian people of Italian descent
20th-century Brazilian painters
20th-century Brazilian male artists
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