Giuseppe Beltramelli (15 May 1734 – 1816) was an Italian scholar and art collector. He was born to an aristocratic family in

Bergamo Bergamo (; lmo, Bèrghem ; from the proto- Germanic elements *''berg +*heim'', the "mountain home") is a city in the alpine Lombardy region of northern Italy, approximately northeast of Milan, and about from Switzerland, the alpine lakes Como ...

. He studied in the Jesuit college of Bologna, and studied design under Domenico Fratta, a member of the

Accademia Clementina The Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna ("academy of fine arts of Bologna") is a public tertiary academy of fine art in Bologna, in Emilia-Romagna in northern Italy. It has a campus in Cesena. Giorgio Morandi taught engraving at the Accademia f ...

. He returned to Bergamo, where his palace became host to a superb art, artifact, and book collection. In Bergamo he patronized artists, including the poet Countess Paolina Secco Suardo Grismondi, who wrote under the pen-name of Lesbia Cidonia. He collaborated with writers such as Morelli, Serassi, Tiraboschi, Lande, and Lanzi. He lived for two years in Paris, meeting major artists and scholars of the period including Dorat, Diderot,

d'Alembert Jean-Baptiste le Rond d'Alembert (; ; 16 November 1717 – 29 October 1783) was a French mathematician, mechanician, physicist, philosopher, and music theorist. Until 1759 he was, together with Denis Diderot, a co-editor of the ''Encyclopédie ...

, de la Condamine, and Madame du Boccage. In London, he met PH Maty and Moschelin, and befriended Angelica Kauffman. He returned to Bergamo impoverished, and sold his collections, but was able to gain a professorship in eloquence and belle-lettere. He was a prolific writer on art.Giornale dell'Italiana letteratura
Volume 46, By Girolamo Da-Rio, page 355-362.

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