Gaetano Chierici (1838–1920) was an Italian painter. He studied in the Reggio Emilia School of Fine Arts and continued his studies at the academies of Modena, Florence and Bologna.
At the beginning of his career was influenced by the Neo-classicism and latter by the innovations of the Macchiaioli painters. In the late 1860s he took up anecdotal genre painting with domestic interiors, which came to be his field of specialization.
He was the director of the Workers’ School of Drawing in Reggio Emilia from 1882 to 1907 and the city’s first Socialist mayor from 1900 to 1902.
