Valentino Baldi (1774 – October 22, 1816) was an Italian painter, mainly of

quadratura Illusionistic ceiling painting, which includes the techniques of perspective di sotto in sù and quadratura, is the tradition in Renaissance, Baroque and Rococo art in which ''trompe-l'œil'', perspective tools such as foreshortening, and other ...

and ornamentation in fresco and tempera.

Biography

Born in

Pistoia Pistoia (; ) is a city and ''comune'' in the Italian region of Tuscany, the capital of a province of the same name, located about north-west of Florence and is crossed by the Ombrone Pistoiese, a tributary of the River Arno. It is a typic ...

, he was the son of Raffaello Baldi, and trained under Francesco Beneforti (1715-1802) in Pistoia. There he was a student along with Baronto Tolemei. He then moved to

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 ...

where he worked under Mauro Tesi. After Tesi died, Baldi received patronage in Bologna from the Senator Girolamo Ranuzzi, the Count Massimiliano Gini, and lastly the Signore Biagio Bugamelli. He profited from making copies of still-life paintings.F Tolomei, 1821, page 154-155.

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1774 births 1816 deaths Artists from Pistoia 18th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 19th-century Italian painters Painters from Tuscany Painters from Bologna 19th-century Italian male artists 18th-century Italian male artists {{Italy-painter-18thC-stub