Pietro Bettelini (6 September 1763 – 27 September 1829) was a
Swissengraver.
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:
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.