Agostino Beltrano

Agostino Beltrano (died 1665) was an Italian painter active in the Baroque period in his native city of Naples.

Beltrano married a painter, also a pupil of the Stanzione, Anna (Annella, Diana, Dianella) de Rosa, nephew of Pacecco de Rosa; their sons Nicola Tomaso and Agnese Chiara were baptized in the parish of S. Maria della Carità respectively on 21 December 1638 and on 19 July 1640.

In Naples there are more mature and of higher quality works including: Assumption of the Virgin (Hospital of the Incurable, administration, signed and dated 1649); St. Girolamo and St. Nicola da Tolentino (signed) on the side altars of the first chapel on the right of St. Agostino degli Scalzi (properly S. Maria della Verità); The four Evangelists, frescoed in the pendentives of the dome of S. Maria Donna Regina (circa 1650); St. Gaetano on the altar of the third chapel on the left of the church of the Apostles (1655, signed).

Beltrano's gloomy characters had now become very sweetened; in the composition, the dynamic elements were suppressed by a rigid constructive symmetry that was linked to the more conservative aspects of the Bolognese school.

Among his last works were the fresco of the small dome of the chapel of the Immaculate in the church of St. Maria degli Angioli in Pizzofalcone, according to De Dominici of about 1659, and the frescoes in the chapel of the Blessed Salvatore d'Orta in St. Maria Nuova (1661) with scenes from the life of the blessed around a central panel with the Coronation of the Virgin.