Paolo Araldi

Paolo Araldi (Casalmaggiore, 18th century - after 1820) was an Italian painter of historical and religious subjects.^[1]

Biography

Araldi was a pupil of the local painter Francesco Antonio Chiozzi, but later moved to study at the Academy of Fine Arts in Parma. 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, he exhibited two larger than life portrait heads of Heraclitus and Democritus. ^[2] For the church of San Leonardo in Casalmaggiore, he painted an altarpiece of San Leonardo in Glory.^[3] The painter Giuseppe Diotti was one of his pupils during 1790-1794.^[4] Other works of Araldi are found in the Museo Diotti of Casalmaggiore. It is unclear if this Araldi was a descendant of the local Renaissance painter Alessandro Araldi.

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