Artist: BELLINI, Gentile Painting: Procession in Piazza S. Marco Introduction: 1496
Tempera and oil on canvas, 367 x 745 cm
Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice
Procession in Piazza S. Marco (detail) ll95 Painting ID:: 5020
Italian Early Renaissance Painter, ca.1429-1507
Gentile was born into a family of renowned painters: his father Jacopo Bellini, was a Venetian pioneer in the use of oil paint as an artistic medium; his acclaimed brother was Giovanni Bellini, and his brother-in-law Andrea Mantegna. Gentile was taught painting in the workshop of his father. Although today Gentile is often seen in the shadow of his more famous family members, in his own time he was considered among the greatest living painters in Venice and had no shortage of commissions; his talent as a portraitist revealed itself at an early age.
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