Pietro Antonio Gualdi Lodrini (23 December 1716 – ) was an Italian painter, mainly active in Bergamo as a painter of sacred subjects during the Rococo or late-Baroque period.
Biography He was born in Nembro, near Bergamo, and trained in painting portraits under Fra Galgario.Fra Vittore Ghislandi, article by Selwyn Brinton, The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs, Volume 21, (1912), page 352. 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 Gera d'Adda.Vite de' pittori, scultori e archittetti Bergamaschi, Volume 2, by Francesco Maria Tassi, page 74.Enciclopedia Treccani, Dizionario Biografico, entry on Pietro Antonio Gualdi.
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