Paolo Antonio Gualdo Lodrini (23 December 1716 – circa 1784) was an Italian painter, mainly active in Bergamo as a painter of sacred subjects during the Rococo or late-Baroque period.
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He was born in Nembro, near Bergamo, and trained painting portraits under Fra Galgario.[1] After five years he moved to Rome, where he worked under Placido Costanzi, a pupil of Benedetto Luti. 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; the parish church of Bonate Sopra; the parish church of Spirano; the parish church of Colognola; the church of Bariano; and for the bishop's chapel in Fara in Gerra d’Adda.[2][3]
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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 edit
- ^ Fra Vittore Ghislandi, article by Selwyn Brinton, The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs, Volume 21, (1912), page 352.
- ^ Vite de' pittori, scultori e archittetti Bergamaschi, Volume 2, by Francesco Maria Tassi, page 74.
- ^ Enciclopedia Treccani, Dizionario Biografico, entry on Pietro Antonio Gualdi.