Pietro Bettelini

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Portrait of Nancy Storace by Pietro Bettelini, now in the library of the Goethe University Frankfurt.

Pietro Bettelini (6 September 1763 – 27 September 1829) was a Swiss engraver.

Life[]

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[]

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[]

  1. ^ Storia di Bassano: e del suo territorio by Ottoni Brentani, page 72.

Attribution:

  • Public Domain 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). I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.


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