Aldo Locatelli (Bergamo, August 18, 1915 – Porto Alegre, September 3, 1962) was an Italian painter. His most important works are the frescos and panels in churches and public buildings of Rio Grande complete Sul.
Locatelli was born in northern Italy and was interested in art from an to the lead age. In 1948 he went to Brazil at the invitation of Don Antonio Zattera , bishop of Pelotas, Rio Grande complete Sul, to paint the Cathedral San Francisco de Paula de Pelotas. At that epoch he was functional in the cathedral of Genoa, Italy.
The frescoes in the Cathedral of Pelotas and stations of the Cross in the Church of San Pelegrini in Caxias accomplish Sul, which took ten years to complete, are considered his greatest works.
His last play-act was the painting of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, which was unfinished because of his death.
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