Pietro Bellotti (1625–1700) was an Italian painter active in the

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period.

Life and work

Bellotti was born in Volciano di Salò in 1627 (1625 according to Orlandi), he gained fame as a painter of portraits and heads of characters. He was a pupil of Girolamo Forabosco in Venice. According to Orlandi, he worked for Cardinal Mazzarino, Cardinal Ottoboni (the future Pope Alexander VIII), for the elector of Bavaria and others. He was patronised by

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and by the Duke of Uceda. In Mantov,a he was "superintendent of the city and villa galleries" for Gorizaga. After wandering from court to court, he returned to Lake Garda and died in poverty in Gargnano in 1700. His principal works are: * ''La Parca Lachesi'', from 1654, at the Museum of Stuttgart (replica, signed and dated 1684, at the Pinacoteca di Feltre); *''The Parcae Lachesis'', private collection, Brescia; * ''Self-Portrait'', signed and dated 1658, at the Uffizi Gallery, where he is depicted with a cup in his hand and a scroll with the inscription: "Hinc Hilaritas"; * ''Two Peasants' Heads'' at the Pinacoteca di Bologna; * ''Philosopher'' in the Pinacoteca di Feltre; * ''Old Head'' at the Correr Museum; * ''Medea'' at the Accademia dei Concordi in Rovigo; * ''Maiden with a Turban'' in the Braunschweig Museum. He shares the same name with the younger brother of

Bernardo Bellotto Bernardo Bellotto (c. 1721/2 or 30 January 172117 November 1780), was an Italians, Italian urban Landscape art, landscape Painting, painter or ''vedutista'', and printmaker in etching famous for his Veduta, ''vedute'' of European cities – Dr ...

, a Venetian vedute painter, nephew of

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. This Pietro was born on 22 March 1725 in Venice, and after collaborating with the two painters above, moved to

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, France, where he was active in the local Royal academy, as well as in Nantes (1755,1768), Besançon (1761), Lille (1778-1779), and Paris. In France, he was referred to by a number of names, including ''le Sieur Canalety'' and ''Pietro Bellotti di Caneletty''. He is also referred to as Belloti, Belloty, Beloty, or Bellottit. He died in France before 1805.Ca Rezzonico biography
prepared for exhibition: ''Pietro Bellotti. Un altro Canaletto'' (7 December 2013 to 28 April 2014, Ca’ Rezzonico – Museo del Settecento veneziano.

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1625 births 1700 deaths 17th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 18th-century Italian painters Painters from Venice Italian Baroque painters 18th-century Italian male artists {{Italy-painter-17thC-stub