Biography

Italian painter, originally Gualtiero dall'Arzere. He was an exponent of the Paduan-Titianesque school, during a period when Giuseppe Salviati (Giuseppe Porta), Lambert Sustris, Domenico Campagnola, and Giuseppe Maria Falconetto were active in Padua. He was highly esteemed by his contemporaries.

Gualtiero worked at the Palazzo Mantova Benavides in Padua in 1541-42 with Giuseppe Salviati, and at the Villa dei Vescovi in Luvigliano in 1542-43 with Lambert Sustris. He created a fresco cycle in the Villa Godi Malinverni in Lonedo di Lugo Vicentino. This cycle is one of the first examples of villa decoration in the Veneto; it presents an ideal continuation of the illusionistic frescoes that characterized ancient Roman villas, typologies mediated by the work of Raphael in the Vatican Loggias and Baldassare Peruzzi in the Villa Farnesina in Rome.

His sudden death in 1552 prevented Gualtiero from completing his work in the Villa Godi. The commission was taken over by Battista Zelotti and Battista del Moro.