Biagio Bellotti: A Lombard Baroque Polymath Biagio Giuseppe Maria Bellotti (Busto Arsizio, 26 February 1714 – Busto Arsizio, 5 August 1789) was an Italian painter, architect, sculptor, musician and canon—a true Renaissance man of his time. Born into a prominent Bourgeois family in Busto Arsizio, Lombardy, Bellotti’s artistic talent blossomed under the tutelage of Padre Paolo Gallazzi and his own paternal lineage, inheriting skills from his grandfather Biagio Bellotti (1656–1713) and uncles Matteo and Paolo Bellotti—all accomplished painters themselves. This familial legacy instilled in him a…