Vittorio Bellini was born in Vertova, Bergamo (Italy) in 1936. He began his artistic training as a young man by alternating work with taking drawing and painting classes as at the Accademia Carrara in Bergamo, Italy. He began exhibiting in 1960, exhibiting at the Premio Torri (Milan, Palazzo della Permanente); in 1963 at the Premio Cremona and in 1965 at the Premio Arturo Tosi (Clusone, Bergamo). In 1966 he won the Città di Lecco first prize, with the work Natività and in 1968 the Sarnico first prize.

Bellini travelled often around Europe, going quite frequently to the Soviet Union, where he met contemporary artists. He later had a book of poetry published, entitled "Sul prato di bianche betull...