BERRETTINI, PIETRO. See Pietro da Cortona.
BERRETTONI, NICCOLÒ, born at Macerata,
Dec. 14, 1637, died in Rome in Feb.
1682. Bolognese and Roman school; history
painter; pupil at Bologna of Cantarini, then
at Rome of Carlo Maratti, who became jealous
of his pupil's brilliant success. He formed
for himself a mixed style, imitating Guido
and Correggio. Works: Marriage of the
Virgin, S. Lorenzo in Borgo, Rome; Birth
and Baptism of Christ, Dresden Gallery; St.
Magdalen, Augsburg Gallery; Visitation,
Hermitage, St. Petersburg; frescoes in S.
Maria de Montescanto al Popolo, Rome, S.
Maria del Suffragio, ib., Palazzo Altieri al
Gesù, ib., Palazzo della Ruffina, Frascati.—Meyer,
Künst. Lex., iii. 692.
BERRUGUETE, ALONSO, born at Paredes
de Nava about 1480, died at Alcalá in
1561. Spanish school; pupil of his father,
Pedro Berruguete; went to Florence about
1503 and studied with Michelangelo, whom
he also assisted in the Vatican. He practised
painting, sculpture, and architecture, and
was among the sculptors chosen by Bramante
to model the Laocoön, to be cast in
bronze. In Florence he was employed to
finish an altarpiece left incomplete by Filippo
Lippi at his death. In 1520 he returned to
Spain and executed many works, especially
monumental altarpieces and church screens,
at Saragossa, Valladolid, Madrid, Toledo, and
other cities. He was greatly honoured by
Charles V., who made him a cavalier and
appointed him his painter and sculptor. He
became wealthy enough to purchase the
lordship of Ventosa, near Valladolid. Berruguete
did more for Spanish art than any who
had preceded him, but he was more excellent
in sculpture than in painting, two specimens
of which, a Holy Family and Flight into
Egypt, are in the Museum at Valladolid.—Stirling,
i. 140; Ch. Blanc, École espagnole;
Bermudez, i. 130; Vasari, ed. Mil., vii. 161;
W. & W., iii. 40.
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BERRUGUETE, PEDRO, born at Paredes de Nava, died in Madrid after 1504. Spanish school; painter to Philip I., by whom he was ennobled. Employed with Rincon in cathedral of Toledo in 1483, 1495, and 1497; also painted in cathedral of Avila. Bermudez ranks him with Pietro Perugino.—Bermudez, i. 144; Stirling, i. 93; W. & W., ii. 359.
BERTAUD, Mme. CHERADAME, died
about 1824. History and portrait painter;
pupil of David. Medal, 2d class, 1819.
Works: Hagar in the Desert (1814); Daughters
of Minos (1817); Female Gardener, Portraits
(1819); Portrait of the Poet Pizere-*caurt
(1822), Nancy Museum; The Fairy
Urgel; Portrait of Gen. Devraux de Sainte
Maurice, Versailles Gallery.—Meyer, Künst.
Lex., iii. 699.
BERTEAUX, HIPPOLYTE DOMINIQUE,
born at Saint-Quentin (Aisne); contemporary.
History and portrait painter;
pupil of Hip. Flandrin, Galland, and P. Baudry.
Medal, 3d class, 1883; 2d class, 1885.
Works: Studies for ceiling of the Theatre
Graslin at Nantes (1881); First Lesson in
History (1882); Ce fut la! souvenir of the
great war (1883); Young Shepherdess (1884);
Attempt upon Life of Hoche (1885).
BERTHÉLEMY, JEAN SIMON, born at
Laon (Aisne), March 5, 1743, died in Paris,
March 1, 1811. History painter; pupil of
Noël Hallé, won in 1764 the second and in
1767 the first prize for Rome, became member
of the Academy in 1781, and professor
in 1792. Works: Cleobis and Biton drawing
their Mother to Temple of Juno (1764);
Alexander cutting the Gordian Knot (1767);
Conquest of Calais (1771); Eustache de St.
Pierre at the Conquest of Calais (1779);
Martyrdom of St. Peter (1779), Douai Museum;
Apollo causing the Body of King
Sarpedon to be taken to Lycia (1781), École
des Beaux Arts, Paris; Eleazar preferring
Death to eating of Forbidden Meat (1789),
Angers Museum; Bonaparte visiting the