Carlo Antonio Rambaldi (1680-1717) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active in his native

Bologna Bologna (, , ; egl, label=Emilian language, Emilian, Bulåggna ; lat, Bononia) is the capital and largest city of the Emilia-Romagna region in Northern Italy. It is the seventh most populous city in Italy with about 400,000 inhabitants and 1 ...

Biography

Known as a figure painter, he was a pupil of Domenico Maria Viani. He painted in

Macerata Macerata () is a city and ''comune'' in central Italy, the county seat of the province of Macerata in the Marche region. It has a population of about 41,564. History The historical city centre is on a hill between the Chienti and Potenza ...

Rome , established_title = Founded , established_date = 753 BC , founder = King Romulus (legendary) , image_map = Map of comune of Rome (metropolitan city of Capital Rome, region Lazio, Italy).svg , map_caption ...

, and

Turin Turin ( , Piedmontese: ; it, Torino ) is a city and an important business and cultural centre in Northern Italy. It is the capital city of Piedmont and of the Metropolitan City of Turin, and was the first Italian capital from 1861 to 1865. The ...

. In Bologna, he painted in the Sacristy of the church of San Petronio. For his work in

Piacenza Piacenza (; egl, label= Piacentino, Piaṡëinsa ; ) is a city and in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern Italy, and the capital of the eponymous province. As of 2022, Piacenza is the ninth largest city in the region by population, with over ...

, he was awarded a knighthood. Returning to Bologna in 1717 with his wife, he drowned in the Taro river.Annali della città di Bologna dalle sua origine al 1796
by Salvatore Muzzi; Bologna, 1846, Volume 8, page 744. He painted a ''Death of St. Joseph'' for the church of

Santi Gregorio e Siro The church of Santi Gregorio e Siro is a Renaissance-style Roman Catholic parish church on Via Montegrappa 15 in central Bologna, Italy. Initially this was the Church of San Gregorio, but when the nearby parish church of San Siro had been torn dow ...

; a ''Visitation'' for San Giuseppe Sposo ; and a ''St. Francis Xavier'' for the church of Santa Lucia.

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17th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 18th-century Italian painters Italian Baroque painters Painters from Bologna 1717 deaths 1680 births 18th-century Italian male artists {{Italy-painter-17thC-stub