Paolo Araldi (18th century – after 1820) was an Italian painter of historical and religious subjects.

Biography

He was born in

Casalmaggiore Casalmaggiore ( Casalasco-Viadanese: ) is a ''comune'' in the province of Cremona, Lombardy, Italy, located on the Po River. It was the birthplace of Italian composers Ignazio Donati and Andrea Zani. Recently, its women's volleyball team Volleyb ...

, and there initially studied under the local painter Abbott Francesco Antonio Chiozzi, but later moved to study at the

Academy of Fine Arts of Parma The Accademia di Belle Arti di Parma (Academy of Fine Arts of Parma) is an artistic institution in the city of Parma, Italy. It is presently located in a wing of the Palazzo della Pilotta The Palazzo della Pilotta is a complex of edifices loca ...

. He became a professor at the Gymnasium of Casalmaggiore. He painted a ''Martyrdom of St Stephen'' for a monastery in Casalmaggiore. In 1820 at the

Brera Academy The Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera (), also known as the or Brera Academy, is a state-run tertiary public academy of fine arts in Milan, Italy. It shares its history, and its main building, with the Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan's main public mu ...

, he exhibited two larger than life portrait heads of Heraclitus and Democritus. For the church of San Leonardo in Casalmaggiore, he painted an altarpiece of ''San Leonardo in Glory''. The painter

Giuseppe Diotti Francesco Giuseppe Antonio Diotti (1 March 177930 January 1846) was an Italian painter of the Neoclassicism, Neoclassic style. He was strongly influenced by the academic styles of both Gaspare Landi and Vincenzo Camuccini. He painted in fresco as ...

was one of his pupils during 1790–1794.Biography on Diotti
Museo Diotti of Casalmaggiore. It is if this Araldi was a descendant of the local Renaissance painter Alessandro Araldi.

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