Aldo Raimondi, Italian, 1902 to 1997, watercolor painting depicting a scene of weapon selling at the Oriental market. Signed lower left. Matted and framed. Aldo Raimondi began his artistic career there in Rome in the studio of Giuseppe Signorini. He moved to Parma in 1926, and began to teach in the local Art Institute. Specializing in watercolor painting, an exclusive piece of his repertoire, in 1939 he was appointed a professor of watercolors at the Academy of Brera, a chair he left immediately after the war to devote himself full time to making films. Later he painted landscapes, animals, flowers and many portraits, including those of the Popes Pius XII, John XXIII and Pope Paul VI. Vintage Watercolor Paintings For Collectors.