Pietro Bonato (1764–1813)[1] was an Italian painter and engraver of the Baroque. He was born at Bassano and was a pupil of Giovanni Volpato. He engraved plates after Guido Reni and Correggio.[2]

Saturn seated in a chariot drawn by a winged serpent-like monster, After Raphael

He worked with Giuseppe Bortignoni the Younger in engraving ceiling decorations from the Vatican.[3]

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  1. ^ The correct dates of birth and death were provided recently (2022) by prof. Federico Piscopo.
  2. ^ Bryan, Michael (1886). Robert Edmund Graves (ed.). Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical. Vol. I: A-K. London: George Bell and Sons. p. 151.
  3. ^ Storia di Bassano: e del suo territorio by Ottoni Brentani, page 72.