Died 1784 | ||
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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Biography
He was born in Nembro, near Bergamo, and trained painting portraits under Fra Galgario. 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.
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Another painter named Pietro Gualdi or Pedro Gualdi (22 July 1808 - 4 January 1857), was born 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.