Bernardino di Betto eli Pinturicchio (1454–1513): A Renaissance Master Bernardino Pinturicchio, or Pintoricchio whose birth name was Bernardino di Betto, also known as Benetto di Biagio or Sordicchio, was an Italian painter during the Renaissance. He acquired his nickname (“little painter”) because of his diminutive stature and he used it to sign some of his artworks that he produced during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. His life unfolded during a period of immense cultural ferment, the High Renaissance blossoming across Italy, yet Pinturicchio carved out a unique path, one that blen…