Domenico Pedrini Biography
Domenico Pedrini (Bologna, 1728 - Bologna, 1800) was an Italian painter. Extremely provincial in his geographical activity, Pedrini's works were mostly completed in and around Bologna, yet his atavistic style distanced itself greatly from Bologna's strong Baroque ancestry. He painted mainly for the churches of Bologna including the church of San Bartolomeo (Madonna Addolorata), the Sanctuary of Santa Maria della Vita (St. Joseph with the Christ Child), and the church of San Sigismondo (San Sigismondo di Borgogna Adoring the Sacred Heart, main altarpiece). In the 1770s he painted the altarpiece depicting the Madonna and Child with San Gaetano for the church of Santa Maria delle Grazie alla Cavalleria in Bologna. Various quadratures and ornamental frescoes were completed in the Bolognese palaces of Cospi Ferretti, Fava-Simonetti and Tanari. Pedrini's allegorical ceiling paintings in the Palazzo Malvezzo were probably executed under the direction of Ubaldo Gandolfi. His son Filippo Pedrini was also a painter, who trained and worked with him. Felice Giani was one of his students. At the Palazzo Spalletti-Trivelli in Reggio Emilia, there are three works by Pedrini, San Sebastiano, Blessing of Jacob and Expulsion of Hagar. There is a Saint Francis de Sales and Saint Francis of Paola in the Sanctuary of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Pavia. His son, Filippo Pedrini, was also a painter and became a professor at the Accademia Clementina.
