• Was an Italian painter active in the Baroque period.
• 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, for the elector of Bavaria and others.
• He was patronized by Pope Alexander VIII and by the Duke of Uceda.
• In Mantova he was "superintendent of the city and villa galleries"for Gorizaga.
• After wandering from court to court he returned to Lake Garda.
• Pietro Bellotti died in poverty in Gargnano in 1700.
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