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 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.

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