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Luca Bertelli

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Luca Bertelli was an Italian engraver and printseller of the Renaissance. He was probably a relation of Ferrando Bertelli. Bertelli is known to have been active from around 1564 to around 1589. Some of his work displays affinities with Mannerism.[1]

Among his prints[1] are:

  • Bust of Hippolita Gonzaga.
  • The Israelites tormented by Serpents after Michelangelo.
  • The Baptism of Christ.
  • Christ washing his Disciples' feet.
  • The Flagellation.
  • The Crucifixion.
  • The Descent from the Cross;
  • The Four Evangelists; after Coxcyen.
  • The Last Judgment; after J.B. Fontana.
  • A Woman and Children warming themselves by a Fire; after Titian.
  • A portrait of Saint Thomas Aquinas from around 1580.

References

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  1. ^ a b Bryan, Michael (1886). Robert Edmund Graves (ed.). Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical. Vol. I: A-K. London: George Bell and Sons. pp. 118–119.