Gaetano Lodi

He also painted various fresco decorations including in the palazzi Rossi and Dal Monte of Bologna, and in 1859 for the Teatro Comunale of San Giovanni in Persiceto.

In 1862, he helped decorate the portico and some rooms of the main offices of the Banca d'Italia.

In 1864, the architect Giuseppe Mengoni, commissioned some decorations for the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II in Milan.

This gained him commissions to help decorate the Casino Reale di San Rossore (1870), an octagonal meeting room in the Banca d'Italia in Florence, a stairwell in the Palazzo Quirinale of Rome, and decoration for Palazzo Reale di Torino (scalone).

In this period he became artistic director of the Società Cooperativa delle Ceramiche d'Imola.