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Domenico Rossi (Seriate, 11 September 1911 – Bergamo, 9 March 1955) was an Italian painter.

Biography
He was born on 11 September 1911 in Seriate to Cesare, municipal secretary, and Carolina Alebardi, sister of the painter Angiolo Alebardi.

Rossi learned the basic notions of drawing at the Andrea Fantoni School of Applied Art in Bergamo, where he was then a drawing teacher in 1954.

He studied at the Accademia Carrara directed by Contardo Barbieri, together with Mario Cornali, Trento Longaretti, Erminio Maffioletti. With the latter he shared public and private commissions, creating impressive decorations placed inside important Bergamo buildings, including the Stories of Francesco Nullo in the current Palazzo della Libertà (1935), the decorations of the Cinema Arlecchino (1953), the mosaic on typical Bergamo activities through time in the main hall of Borsa Merci (1954).

He died in March 1955 at the Ospedale Maggiore in Bergamo. He is buried in the family grave in the Seriate cemetery.