---- Gentile, a Venetian, b. 1421, d. 1501. _Ridolfi._ ii. 17, iii. 52.

---- Gio. his brother, d. soon after 1516, aged 90. _Ridolfi._ ii. 17, iii.

50.

---- Jacopo, father of the two preceding, painted about 1456. _MS._ From an inscription cited by Polidoro, it would seem that Jacopo and his two sons painted as early as 1409. This cannot be credited, we should read 1459. ii.

17, iii. 26.

Belliniano, Vittore, a Venetian, painted in 1526. _Ridolfi._ iii. 65.

Bellis, de, Antonio, a Neapolitan, d. young in 1656. _Dominici._ ii. 403.

Bello Marco. One of his pictures, with the initials _M. B._, formerly in Argenta, the native place of the artist, is now in the _Obizzi Museum_, bearing date 1548, iii. 67.

Bellotti, Pietro, da Volzano on the lake of Garda, b. 1625, d. 1700. _Guida di Rovigo._ iii. 285.

Bellotto, Bernardo, a Venetian, lived in 1718. _Orlandi._ iii. 387.

Bellucci, Ant., b. 1654, in the Pieve di Soligo in the Trevisano, d. there 1726. _Melchiori._ iii. 352.

---- Gio. Batista, his son. _Federici._ _ib._

Bellunello, Andrea, da S. Vito, painted in 1476. In a painting of 1490, he signs himself Andrea Bellone. _Renaldis._ iii. 39.

Bellunese, Giorgio, da S. Vito, flourished about the middle of the sixteenth century. _See Cesarini._ iii. 249.

Beltraffio, Gio. Antonio, a Milanese, d. 1516, aged 49. _New Guide of Milan._ iv. 252.

Beltrano, Agostino, a Neapolitan, painted in 1646, d. about 1665.

_Dominici._ ii. 404.

Belvedere, Ab. Andrea, a Neapolitan, b. 1646, d. 1732. _Dominici._ ii. 423.

Bembo, Bonifazio, or Fazio, da Valdarno, a Cremonese, painted in 1461.

_Lomazzo._ iv. 152.

---- Gio. Francesco, his brother, called Il Vetraro, was painting in 1524.

_Zaist._ iv. 160.

Benci, Domenico, a.s.sistant of Vasari, lived in 1567. i. 268.

Bencovich, Federigo, called also Federighetto di Dalmazia, lived in 1753.

_Guarienti._ iii. 353, v. 255.

Benedetti, Mattia and Lodovico, of Reggio, flourished about 1720.

_Tiraboschi._ iv. 63.

Benefial, Cav. Marco, b. at Rome, 1684, d. 1764. _Lettere Pittoriche_, vol.

v. ii. 291.

Benfatto, Luigi, called dal Friso, of Verona, d. 1611, aged 60. _Ridolfi._ iii. 238.

Benini, Sigismondo, a Cremonese, pupil to Ma.s.sarotti. _Zaist._ iv. 202.

Benso, Giulio, b. in the Genovese, about 1601, d. 1668. _Soprani._ v. 404.

Benvenuto, _see_ Ortolano.

Benzi, Giulio, a Bolognese, d. 1681, aged 34. _Guida di Bologna._ v. 254.

Bergamasco, Il, _see_ Gio. Batista Castello.

Bergamo, da, F. Damiano Domenicano, d. 1549. _Ta.s.si._ iii. 89.

---- Guglielmo, Maestro, lived in 1296. _Ta.s.si._ iii. 19.

Berlinghieri, Camillo, called Il Ferraresino, d. 1635, aged 39.

_Baruffaldi._ v. 335.

---- Bonaventura, da Lucca, painted in 1235. _Bettinelli._ i. 14, 384, iv.

32.

Bernabei, Pier Antonio, of Parma, called della Casa, lived about 1550.

_MS._ iv. 132.

---- Tommaso, a Cortonese, pupil to Luca Signorelli. _Vasari._ Lived in 1540. _Mariotti._ i. 99.

Bernardi, Franc., called Il Bigolaro, a Veronese, pupil to Feti. _Pozzo._ iii. 323.

Bernasconi, Laura, a Roman lady, and disciple of Mario Nuzzi. _Pascoli._ ii. 258.

Bernazzano, a Milanese, flourished in 1536. _Orlandi._ iv. 252.

Bernetz, Cristiano, of Hamburgh, b. 1658, d. 1722. _Pascoli._ ii. 334.

Bernieri, Ant., da Coreggio, b. 1516, d. 1563. _Tiraboschi._ iv. 115.

Bernini, Cav. Gio. Lorenzo, b. at Naples of Florentine parentage, in 1598, d. 1680. _Baldinucci._ ii. 263.

Berrettini, Cav. Pietro, of Cortona, b. 1596, d. 1669. _Pascoli._ i. 336, ii. 281.

Berrettoni, Niccolo, di Montefeltro, b. 1637, d. 1682. _Pascoli._ ii. 281.

Berrugese, or Berruguete, Alonzo, a Spaniard, b. 1545. _Palom._ Or rather at Toledo, very old, in 1561. _Conca._ i. 180.

Bersotti, Carlo Girolamo, of Pavia, b. 1645. _Orlandi._ iv. 325.

Bertani, Gio. Batista, a Mantuan, lived in 1568. _Vasari._ iv. 20.