Lorenzo Baraldi

Biography

Lorenzo Baraldi studied at the faculty of set design of the Istituto d'Arte Paolo Toschi in Parma, Italy, and attended the set decoration classes of the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera in Milan. He taught set decoration at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Viterbo from 1993 to 1995, at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia from 1994 to 1995, at the Accademia di Costume e Moda in Rome from 1995 to 1998, at the Associazione Scenografi Costumisti e Arredatori from 1998 to 1999, at the Istituto Europeo di Design (I.E.D.) during the academic year 2005–2006, and in the Campus for arts student of the Sannio Film Festival in the years 2008 and 2009. He made a series of lectures on scenography and scenotechnics at the Istituto d'Arte Paolo Toschi in Parma in winter 1996 and in 2000–2001.

Baraldi started his career in cinema as set decorator for the film Tepepa (1968) directed by Giulio Petroni. He prepared the sets of various films by Mario Monicelli, including Le rose del deserto, Le due vite di Mattia Pascal, Bertoldo, Bertoldino e Cacasenno, Amici miei atto II, Il marchese del Grillo, Temporale Rosy, Viaggio con Anita, Un borghese piccolo piccolo, Signore e signori, buonanotte e Amici miei. He also worked for television and prepared the sets of the miniseries Il bell'Antonio and Al di là delle frontiere of Maurizio Zaccaro, Luisa Sanfelice, of Paolo e Vittorio Taviani, and La guerra è finita by Lodovico Gasparini.

Baraldi also worked for directors outside Italy, such as the French director Georges Lautner for the film Le Guignolo (1980) or Michael Radford for the film Il Postino: The Postman (1994).

For the Cultural Centre of the Alhóndiga Bilbao (Spain) Lorenzo Baraldi was involved in the realisation of the 43 columns of the atrium. The history of the creation of those 43 columns is the topic of a documentary film of 2010.

Productor

Production designer

Art director

Set decorator

Costume designer