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Bologna
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, 1763 - Bologna, 1856) was an Italian painter.
Biography
He was the son of the painter Domenico Pedrini. At theAccademia Clementina
The Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna ('academy of fine arts of Bologna') is a public tertiary academy of fine art in Bologna, Italy. It has a campus in Cesena.
Giorgio Morandi taught engraving at the Accademia for more than 25 years.
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in Bologna
Bologna ( , , ; ; ) is the capital and largest city of the Emilia-Romagna region in northern Italy. It is the List of cities in Italy, seventh most populous city in Italy, with about 400,000 inhabitants and 150 different nationalities. Its M ...
he became a pupil of Ubaldo and Gaetano Gandolfi
Gaetano Gandolfi (31 August 1734 – 20 June 1802) was an Italian painter, draughtsman and sculptor of the late Baroque period, mainly active in and around Bologna. He is known for his biblical, mythological and allegorical subjects, as well as hi ...
, while Mauro Gandolfi
Mauro Gandolfi (18 September 1764 – 4 January 1834) was an Italian painter, water colorist and engraver of the Bolognese School (painting), Bolognese School.Felice Giani were fellow students.
His first paintings of ''Saints Barbara and Thomas Aquinas'' for San Bartolomeo in Bologna (both in situ) date from 1779, were probably completed in collaboration with his father. In 1790 he became a member of the Storia e Memoria di Bologna
short biographical entry by Antonella Mampieri.
In 1830 he completed the ''Delivery of the Keys'' for a church in San Pietro Capofiume near Bologna.
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1763 births 1856 deaths 18th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 19th-century Italian painters Painters from Bologna 19th-century Italian male artists 18th-century Italian male artists {{Italy-painter-18thC-stub
Accademia Clementina
The Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna ('academy of fine arts of Bologna') is a public tertiary academy of fine art in Bologna, Italy. It has a campus in Cesena.
Giorgio Morandi taught engraving at the Accademia for more than 25 years.
Hist ...
, and in 1821 he was elected to the Accademia Pontificia in Rome.
He is best known for his frescoes for various palaces in Bologna, including paintings of ''Allegory of Victory and the Muses'' for the Palazzo Comunale, Bologna and a ''Apotheosis of Hercules'' (entry staircase ceiling), an ''Apollo and the Hours'' in the grand salon, and a ''Dance of Nymphs and Cupids'' for a room in the Palazzo Hercolani.
In 1828 he painted five canvases for the ceiling of San Paolo in Monte at Bologna, now in the convent there. In that year, he also painted ''Triumphant Religion Granting Immortality to Bologna (Felsina)'' on the ceiling of the Sala degli Uomini Illustri e Benemeriti of the Pantheon in the cemetery of the Certosa at Bologna. The design for the Pantheon was guided by Giuseppe Tubertini. Pedrini also painted various tombs in the Certosa, including those of Laghi, Carlo Chiesa e Vitale Bini, Ginevra Pepoli, Brigitta Giorgi Banti. In the Palazzo Tanari he was the figure painter for the landscape fresco artist Vincenzo Martinelli, and served a similar role in the Palazzo Pallavicini for Flaminio Minozzi.short biographical entry by Antonella Mampieri.
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