Pietro Gaudenzi (January 18, 1880 in Genoa – December 23, 1955 in Anticoli Corrado, near Rome) was an Italian painter.
He had received early training from the painter Francesco Del Santo in La Spezia, but then moved on to Genoa.
In 1910, his final essay piece at the end of his scholarship, a painting titled I Priori was awarded a gold medal at an exhibition in Milan.
[3] He painted portraits of Signora Albanese (Gold medal in 1924, Monza), Wally Toscanini, Padre Giovanni Semeria, cleric Saule Radaelli, and Maresciallo Enrico Caviglia.
He gained many prestigious appointments in the 1930s, including a professorship at the Academy of Fine Arts of Naples, the Mussolini prize for arts (1936), and was nominated member of the Accademia dei Virtuosi al Pantheon, and to the Accademia di San Luca in Rome.