Gaetano Lodi (

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, 1830 – 1886) was an

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painter. He mainly worked in ornamental decoration as well as genre subjects. He was professor of ornamentation at the Academy of Fine Arts of Bologna. He initially trained under

Giuseppe Badiali Giuseppe Badiali (1797 – after 1850) was an Italian painter and scenic designer. Biography Best known for his scenography, Badiali also frescoed the ceiling of the Teatro Comunale of Bologna, now lost but for designs. Among his scenography, it ...

, then Giuseppe Manfredini, and finally Andrea Pesci. He painted ephemeral decorations in 1857 for the visit to Bologna of Pius IX. He also painted various fresco decorations including in the palazzi Rossi and Dal Monte of Bologna, and in 1859 for the Teatro Comunale of

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. In 1862, he helped decorate the portico and some rooms of the main offices of the Banca d'Italia. In 1864, the architect

Giuseppe Mengoni Giuseppe Mengoni (23 November 1829 – 30 December 1877) was an Italian architect. He designed the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II in Milan Milan ( , , Lombard language, Lombard: ; it, Milano ) is a city in northern Italy, capital of ...

, commissioned some decorations for the

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in Milan. This gained him commissions to help decorate the Casino Reale di San Rossore (1870), an octagonal meeting room in the Banca d'Italia in Florence, a stairwell in the

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of Rome, and decoration for Palazzo Reale di Torino (scalone). Between 1873 and 1877, he traveled to

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in Egypt to paint for the Khedive and other commissions. This allowed him to paint the Sala Egizia of the Palazzo Sanguinetti. Among his pupils are

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Alfredo Tartarini Alfredo Tartarini ( Bologna 1845 – Bologna 1905) was an Italian painter, depicting frescoes and decorative subjects. Bologna He was a pupil of Salvatore Tomaselli and Tito Azzolini at the Accademia of Fine Arts of Bologna. In 1887 and 1880, ...

, and

Augusto Sezanne Augusto Sezanne (Firenze, 31 August 1856 - Venice, 5 May 1935) was an Italian painter, active in a Naturalist style of landscape painting. He also worked as engraver, ceramist, and even as architect. Biography He completed his studies at the Ac ...

. In 1881 he painted the atrium of the theater in Crevalcore. In this period he became artistic director of the Società Cooperativa delle Ceramiche d'Imola.Storia e Memoria di Bologna, biography by Roberto Martorelli.

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19th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Painters from Bologna 1830 births 1886 deaths Academic staff of the Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna 19th-century Italian male artists {{Italy-painter-19thC-stub