Pietro Gaudenzi (Genoa 1880–Anticoli Corrado 1955)

He was first trained artistically in La Spezia by the painter Felice Del Santo.

He attended the Ligurian Academy of Fine Arts in Genoa under the aegis of Cesare Viazzi.

In 1904, he won the Duchessa di Galliera art prize which allowed him to move to Rome.

He completed his training in the Eternal City, inspired by the great 16th-century artists. he spent time with Giulio Aristide Sartorio, Antonio Mancini, Armando Spadini, and Felice Carena, who gave him significant stimuli to help him improve.

Pietro Gaudenzi met Candida Toppi (Anticoli Corrado, 1888 – Milan, 1920) for the first time at Villa Strohl-Fern. In 1909, they married in the church of Santa Vittoria in Anticoli Corrado. They had two children, Enrico (1912) and Giuliana (1913).

They moved to Milan from 1920 to 1930. After Candida Toppi’s tragic death, he married her sister Augusta Toppi, with whom he had two children, Iacopo (1929) and Maria Candida (1931).

He left Milan to move to Anticoli Corrado, where he was one of the founders of the local Gallery of Modern Art.

Awards

Gold Medal of the Ministry of Education in 1910

Gold Medal at the 1913 Munich Exhibition

Prince Umberto Award in 1915

Gold Medal of Merit of the Ministry of National Education in 1940

Honors

Professor emeritus of the academies of Genoa and Parma, appointment as member of the Accademia dei Virtuosi al Pantheon, appointed the chair of painting at the Academy of Naples in 1935

In 1936, Mussolini Prize for the Arts

In 1951 he was appointed director of the Vatican School of Mosaic.

Exhibitions

In 1906 he exhibited at Palazzo Rosso in Genoa.

Pietro Gaudenzi, in 1932, took part in the Venice Biennale.

In 1935, he took part in the Rome Quadrennial.

Works

Frescoes in the Castle of the Knights of Rhodes in 1938, solo exhibitions at Galleria Pesaro in Milan in 1921 and 1931, in the ducal palace of Genoa (1931); mosaics for the Cathedral of Messina, the crypt of the Cathedral of Ascoli Piceno, the apses of the Queen Apostolorum, and the church of the American College of Rome.

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