Paolo Monaldi (1710 – after 1779) was an Italian painter of the late-

Baroque The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including t ...

or Rococo style, known for painting Bambocciata, or genre scenes of public activities. He was born and died in Rome, and initially trained in the studio of

Paolo Anesi Paolo Anesi (1697–1773) was an Italian painter of the 18th century, active mainly in painting capriccios and landscapes (vedute) in the style of Giovanni Paolo Pannini. Biography Born in Florence, he trained with Giuseppe Bartolomeo Chiari and ...

. Monaldi worked under Anesi in the fresco decoration of the Villa Chigi, presumably of Cardinal Flavio Chigi, painted between 1765 and 1767.Sovraintendenza Rome
description of former Villa Chigi. In particular, he contributed to the paintings depicting the myth of ''Diana and Endymion'', and with Angelica and Medoro over a series of eight landscapes with bambocciate. Monaldi's rural scenes recall the work of the Anesi colleague,

Andrea Locatelli Andrea Locatelli (19 December 1695 – 19 February 1741)Michel, Olivier (2003). "Locatelli, Andrea". Grove Art Online. was an Italian painter of landscapes (vedute). Locatelli (he spelled it Lucatelli) was born in Rome in 1695, as stat ...

, also active in Rome. He was also a painter for Palazzo Rospigliosi. Palazzo Braschi and the Accademia di San Luca. On the basis of the Lanzi, Stefano Ticozzi in his Dictionary of Painters by the renewing of Fine Arts until 1800, (1818) cites him as "not ignoble painter bambocciate"

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* Translated from Italian Wikipedia 1710 births 1779 deaths Painters from Rome 18th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Italian Baroque painters Italian genre painters Fresco painters 18th-century Italian male artists {{Italy-painter-18thC-stub