Giovanni Lorenzo Bertolotti Explained

Giovanni Lorenzo Bertolotti (1640–1721) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active in Genoa.

Bertolotti specialized in paintings having scenes of a mythological, historical or religious nature as subjects.^[1]

He trained under Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione. Bertolotti contributed paintings to the Oratory of San Giacomo della Marina and the Basilica della Santissima Annunziata. He painted a Visitation of the Virgin to Saint Elizabeth for the church of La Visitazione.

References

• Book: Soprani, Raffaello. 1769. Delle vite de' pittori, scultori, ed architetti genovesi; Tomo secundo scritto da Carlo Giuseppe Ratti. Carlo Giuseppe Ratti. 102–105. Stamperia Casamara . Genoa .
• Book: Ticozzi, Stefano. 1830. Dizionario degli architetti, scultori, pittori, intagliatori in rame ed in pietra, coniatori di medaglie, musaicisti, niellatori, intarsiatori d'ogni etá e d'ogni nazione . 1 . 155 . Gaetano Schiepatti . Milan .

• Book: Bryan, Michael. 1886. Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical . I: A-K . Robert Edmund Graves . 119–120 . George Bell and Sons. London .

Notes and References

1. Web site: BERTOLOTTO, Giovanni Lorenzo in "Dizionario Biografico" . 2023-04-15 . www.treccani.it . it-IT.