Pietro Bettelini
Illustration — Portrait of Nancy Storace by Pietro Bettelini, now in the library of the Goethe University Frankfurt • Illustration — Tableau of Italian composers, c. 1790 Pietro Bettelini (6 September 1763 – 27 September 1829) was a Swiss engraver.
Also recorded as Pietro Antonio Leone Bettelini · Pietro Bettalini · Pietro Antonio Leone Bettalini · Antonio Bettelini
Pietro Bettelini
![Aminta declares his love for the wood nymph Sylvia. Etching by P. Bettelini., [between 1700 and 1799?], by Pietro Bettelini](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/L0074552/full/1280,/0/default.jpg)
Pietro Bettelini · Wellcome Collection, London · Wellcome Collection · Public Domain Mark
- Born
- 1763 · Caslano.
- Died
- 1828 · Rome.
- Nationality
- Switzerland
- Occupation
- copper engraver · printmaker · artist · painter
- Fields
- visual arts
- Teachers
- Gaetano Gandolfi
- Languages
- Italian
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Illustration — Portrait of Nancy Storace by Pietro Bettelini, now in the library of the Goethe University Frankfurt • Illustration — Tableau of Italian composers, c. 1790 Pietro Bettelini (6 September 1763 – 27 September 1829) was a Swiss engraver.
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Training under Gaetano Gandolfi is recorded. The recorded working language is Italian. The field of work recorded is visual arts. Work by Pietro Bettelini is recorded in the collections of National Gallery of Victoria, Vanderbilt Museum of Art and Print Collection.
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.
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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 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.
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1763
Pietro Bettelini born at Caslano.
1828
Pietro Bettelini died at Rome.
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Caslano.
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