Pietro Ghizzardi (Viadana, 20 July 1906 – Boretto, 7 December 1986) was an Italian painter and writer. He is known as an exponent of naive painting. Read the full biography
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Pietro Ghizzardi (Viadana, 20 July 1906 – Boretto, 7 December 1986) was an Italian painter and writer. He is known as an exponent of naive painting. Born in Corte Pavesina, in the municipality of Viadana, to a peasant family, from a young age he showed a passion for painting, initially cultivated in an amateur way. He moved in 1930 to Cogozzo, another hamlet of Viadana, where he began to paint on the walls of farmhouses, and the following year to Boretto, in the province of Reggio Emilia, where he began his exhibition activity and where his career as a painter began. He died in Boretto in 1986