Paolo Monaldi

Subjects and genres recorded for the work are genre. Places of work recorded in the authority are Rome. Works named in the authority record are Peasants Making Music and Peasants and a Mendicant Friar. Work by Paolo Monaldi is recorded in the collections of Nationalmuseum, National Galleries Scotland, Walters Art Museum, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe.

• Name — Paolo Monaldi • Born — 1704 • Birthplace — Rome, Papal States • Died — 28 July 1780 • Place of death — Rome, Papal States • Field — Landscape art • Training — Paolo Anesi • Style — Baroque

Paolo Monaldi was born in Rome in 1704. According to Luigi Lanzi he trained with Andrea Locatelli, a specialist of landscape painting (vedute) active in Rome in the mid-18th century. Between 1765 and 1767, he worked under Paolo Anesi in the fresco decoration of the Villa Chigi, built by Cardinal Flavio Chigi along the Via Salaria in Rome. Monaldi contributed notably to pieces illustrating the myths of Diana and Endymion and Angelica and Medoro, set within a series of pastoral landscapes featuring lively popular genre scenes (bambocciate). Monaldi's rural scenes recall the work of Andrea Locatelli. Monaldi worked as a painter for the Rospigliosi family, creating several canvases and genre paintings (bambocciate) for them, including famous portraits of Prince Camillo Rospigliosi's racehorses (such as the horse Aquilino) and scenes like the Feast of Prince Rospigliosi at the Villa della Magliana. During the 1770s he participated in the decoration of Palazzo Barberini in Rome with a series of bambocciate. Monaldi died in Rome on 28 July 1780.