He mainly painted for Bolognese churches including the church of
San Bartolomeo (
Madonna Addolorata), the Sanctuary of
Santa Maria della Vita (
St Joseph with the Christ Child), and the church of San Sigismondo (
St Sigismund of Burgundy Adoring the Sacred Heart, main altarpiece). In the 1770s, he painted the altarpiece depicting
Virgin and Child with St Cajetan for the church of
Santa Maria delle Grazie alla Cavalleria in Bologna. Various quadrature and ornamental frescoes were completed in the Bolognese palaces of
Cospi Ferretti,
Fava-Simonetti and Tanari. Pedrini's allegorical ceiling paintings in the
Palazzo Malvezzo, were likely to have been executed under the direction of
Ubaldo Gandolfi. His son
Filippo Pedrini was also a painter, who trained and worked with him and became a professor at the
Accademia Clementina.
Felice Giani was one of his pupils. At the
Palazzo Spalletti-Trivelli in
Reggio Emilia, there are three works by Pedrini,
St Sebastian,
Blessing of Jacob, and
Expulsion of Hagar. There is a
San Francesco di Sales e San Francesco di Paola at the Sanctuary of
Santa Maria delle Grazie in
Pavia. Pedrini died in 1800 in Bologna. ==References==