Paolo Antonio Gualdo Lodrini (23 December 1716 – circa 1784) was an Italian painter, mainly active in

Bergamo Bergamo (; lmo, Bèrghem ; from the proto- Germanic elements *''berg +*heim'', the "mountain home") is a city in the alpine Lombardy region of northern Italy, approximately northeast of Milan, and about from Switzerland, the alpine lakes Como ...

as a painter of sacred subjects during the

Rococo Rococo (, also ), less commonly Roccoco or Late Baroque, is an exceptionally ornamental and theatrical style of architecture, art and decoration which combines asymmetry, scrolling curves, gilding, white and pastel colours, sculpted moulding, ...

or 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 ...

period.

Biography

He was born in

Nembro Nembro ( Bergamasque: ) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Bergamo in the Italian region of Lombardy, located about northeast of Milan and about northeast of Bergamo, on the right bank of the Serio River. Nembro borders the foll ...

, near

, and trained painting portraits under

Fra Galgario Fra’ Galgario (4 March 1655 – December 1743), born Giuseppe Vittore Ghislandi, and also called ''Fra’ Vittore del Galgario'', was an Italian painter, mainly active in Bergamo as a portraitist during the Rococo or late- Baroque period. Bio ...

. After five years he moved to Rome, where he worked under

Placido Costanzi Placido Costanzi (1702–1759) was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque period. Placido Costanzi was born in 1702 to a family of gem-makers in Rome. He was exposed to art at a very young age, and became a pupil of Benedetto Luti and painted ma ...

, a pupil of

Benedetto Luti Benedetto Luti (17 November 1666 – 17 June 1724) was an Italian painter. Early life Luti was born in Florence on 17 November 1666. Career In 1691, he moved to Rome, where he was patronized by Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, an en ...

. Returning to Bergamo, he painted altarpieces for a number of churches in the region, including: the Chiesa del Carmine, Bergamo; the parish church of

Alzano Lombardo Alzano Lombardo (Bergamasque: ) is a in the province of Bergamo, Lombardy, northern Italy. Alzano received the honorary title of city with a presidential decree of 11 March 1991. It is home to the San Martino Museum of Religious Art and the Basi ...

; the parish church of

Bonate Sopra Bonate Sopra (Bergamasque: ) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Bergamo in the Italian region Lombardy, located about northeast of Milan and about west of Bergamo. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 7,042 and an are ...

; the parish church of

Spirano Spirano ( Bergamasque: ) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Bergamo in the Italian region of Lombardy, located about northeast of Milan and about south of Bergamo. Spirano borders the following municipalities: Brignano Gera d'Ad ...

; the parish church of

Colognola Colognola, located at is a quarter of the city of Bergamo. Geography The quarter of Colognola is in the south part of the side close to the motorway Milan Venice also named A4. History There has been a village in the Colognola area since th ...

; the church of

Bariano Bariano (Bergamasque: ) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Bergamo in the Italy, Italian region of Lombardy, located about east of Milan and about south of Bergamo. Bariano borders the following municipalities: Caravaggio, Italy, ...

; and for the bishop's chapel in Fara in Gerra d’Adda.Enciclopedia Treccani
Dizionario Biografico, entry on Pietro Antonio Gualdi.

Note

Another painter named Pietro Gualdi was born in 1808 in Carpi in the region of Emilia-Romagna, but practiced as a panorama painter, architect and lithographer who was active in Mexico City from 1838 to about 1851, and in New Orleans from about 1851 to 1857.

References

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