Luca Bertelli

Luca Bertelli was an Italian engraver and printseller of the Renaissance. He was probably a relation of Ferrando Bertelli. Bertelli is known to have been active from around 1564 top around 1589. Some of his work displays affinities with mannierism. Among his prints are:

• Bust of Hippolita Gonzaga.
• The Israelites tormented by Serpents after Michelangelo.
• The Baptism of Christ.
• Christ washing his Disciples' feet.
• The Flagellation.
• The Crucifixion.
• The Descent from the Cross;
• The Four Evangelists; after Coxcyen.
• The Last Judgment; after J.B. Fontana.
• 'A Woman and Children warming themselves by a Fire; after Titian.
• A portrait of Saint Thomas Aquinas from around 1580.

References

• Bryan, Michael (1886). Robert Edmund Graves. ed. Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical (Volume I: A-K). York St. #4, Covent Garden, London; Original from Fogg Library, Digitized May 18, 2007: George Bell and Sons. pp. pages 118–119. http://books.google.com/books?id=4GYCAAAAYAAJ&printsec=titlepage&dq=DICTIONARY+AACHEN+AALST&as_brr=1.