Pietro Bettelini
Appearance
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Pietro Bettelini (6 September 1763 – 27 September 1829) was a Swiss engraver.
Life
[edit]Bettelini was born in Caslano, and began studying art at a young age. He received instruction from Gandolfi and Bartolozzi; but in his subsequent works he inclined more to the style of Raphael Morghen. He died at Rome in 1828.
Works
[edit]Bettelini was held in high estimation by Thorwaldsen, who employed him to engrave some of his finest works, both figures and bassi-rilievi. His engraving of the Entombment, by Andrea del Sarto, in the Florence Gallery is considered[by whom?] among his finest examples of art. His works include:
- Entombment; after Andrea del Sarto.
- Madonna col devoto; after the painting by Correggio, in the possession of the King of Bavaria.
- Ecce Homo; after Correggio.
- St. John; after Domenichino.
- Sibylla Persica; after Guercino.
- Ascension of the Virgin; after Guido.
- Madonna and sleeping Infant; after Raphael.
- Judgment of Solomon; after the same.
- Magdalene; after Schidone.
- Maria div. Sapientiae; after Titian.
- The Virgin Mary reading a book; after the same.
- Portrait of Galileo.
- Portrait of Machiavelli.
- Portrait of Poliziano.
He worked with Giuseppe Bortignoni the Younger in engraving ceiling decorations from the Vatican.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ Storia di Bassano: e del suo territorio by Ottoni Brentani, page 72.
Attribution:
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "Bettelini, Pietro". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). Vol. I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.