Biagio Betti

{{Short description|Italian painter}}

Biagio Betti (1535–1605) was an Italian painter of the late-Renaissance or Mannerist period. He was born in Cutigliano. He became, in 1557, a monk of the order of the Theatines of San Silvestro al Quirinale, and his works are principally confined to the monastery of that order in Rome.

In Rome, he became a pupil of Daniele da Volterra. In the refectory of the Theatine monastery, he painted the Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes which was restored by Paolo Anesi in 1847; and in the library, Christ disputing with the Doctors.{{cite book| first=Michael| last=Bryan| year=1886| title=Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical |volume=I A-K |editor=Robert Edmund Graves |page=9| publisher=George Bell and Sons|location=London |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4GYCAAAAYAAJ }} He is said to have been prized by Pope Clement VIII.[https://books.google.com/books?id=LZP8JSbY_NwC Guida di Pistoia per gli amanti delle belle arti con notizie] By Francesco Tolomei, page 157.