Piazzoni's best-known public work may be his 14 murals for the former headquarters of the San Francisco Public Library for architect George W. Kelham, ten of them dating from 1932, the other four painted in 1945 and not installed until the 1970s.
The artist is the grandson of landscape painter Gottardo Piazzoni, though he is essentially a self-taught artist.
Gottardo Aldighieri | Gottardo Piazzoni | Azzone Visconti's tomb in the church of San Gottardo, Milan |
Thomas Wood, famous landscape painter and muralist, grandson of Gottardo Piazzoni, world famous muralist