Giovanni Bellini

Italian High Renaissance Painter, ca.1430-1516 (b ?1431-6; d Venice, 29 Nov 1516). Painter and draughtsman, son of (1) Jacopo Bellini. Although the professional needs of his family background may have encouraged him to specialize at an early date in devotional painting, by the 1480s he had become a leading master in all types of painting practised in 15th-century Venice. Later, towards the end of his long life, he added the new genres of mythological painting and secular allegory to his repertory of subject-matter. His increasing dominance of Venetian art led to an enormous expansion of his workshop after c. 1490; and this provided the training-ground not only for his numerous shop-hands and imitators (generically known as Belliniani) but probably also for a number of major Venetian painters of the next generation. Throughout his career, Giovanni showed an extraordinary capacity for absorbing a wide range of artistic influences, both from within Venetian tradition and from outside. He also oversaw a technical revolution in the art of painting, involving the gradual abandonment of the traditional Italian use of egg tempera in favour of the technique of oil painting pioneered in the Netherlands. It was thanks to Giovanni Bellini that the Venetian school of painting was transformed during the later 15th century from one mainly of local significance to one with an international reputation. He thus set the stage for the triumphs of Venetian painting in the 16th century and for the central contribution that Venice was to make to the history of European art.


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Giovanni Bellini St Francis in the Wilderness (mk08) oil


St Francis in the Wilderness (mk08)
Painting ID::  21194
St Francis in the Wilderness (mk08)
C.1480 Tempera and oil on wood 124.4X141.9CM New York The Frick Collection
   
   
     

Giovanni Bellini Le Comte Robert de Montesquiou (mk20) oil


Le Comte Robert de Montesquiou (mk20)
Painting ID::  22463
Le Comte Robert de Montesquiou (mk20)
1897 Oil on canvas,200 x 100 cm Musee d'Orsay,Paris
1897 Oil_on_canvas,200_x_100_cm Musee_d'Orsay,Paris
   
   
     

Giovanni Bellini Leonardo Loredan,doge of Venice (mk45) oil


Leonardo Loredan,doge of Venice (mk45)
Painting ID::  25868
Leonardo Loredan,doge of Venice (mk45)
1501/05 OiL on panel 61.5x45cm London,The National Gallery
   
   
     

Giovanni Bellini Madonna and Child Between SS.Catherine and Ursula oil


Madonna and Child Between SS.Catherine and Ursula
Painting ID::  28608
Madonna and Child Between SS.Catherine and Ursula
mk61 c.1500 Oil on canvas 77x104cm
mk61 c.1500 Oil_on_canvas 77x104cm
   
   
     

Giovanni Bellini St.Jerome in the Desert oil


St.Jerome in the Desert
Painting ID::  29801
St.Jerome in the Desert
mk67 Panel 45 1/4x44 1/2in Pitti,Meridiana
mk67 Panel 45_1/4x44_1/2in Pitti,Meridiana
   
   
     

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     Giovanni Bellini
     Italian High Renaissance Painter, ca.1430-1516 (b ?1431-6; d Venice, 29 Nov 1516). Painter and draughtsman, son of (1) Jacopo Bellini. Although the professional needs of his family background may have encouraged him to specialize at an early date in devotional painting, by the 1480s he had become a leading master in all types of painting practised in 15th-century Venice. Later, towards the end of his long life, he added the new genres of mythological painting and secular allegory to his repertory of subject-matter. His increasing dominance of Venetian art led to an enormous expansion of his workshop after c. 1490; and this provided the training-ground not only for his numerous shop-hands and imitators (generically known as Belliniani) but probably also for a number of major Venetian painters of the next generation. Throughout his career, Giovanni showed an extraordinary capacity for absorbing a wide range of artistic influences, both from within Venetian tradition and from outside. He also oversaw a technical revolution in the art of painting, involving the gradual abandonment of the traditional Italian use of egg tempera in favour of the technique of oil painting pioneered in the Netherlands. It was thanks to Giovanni Bellini that the Venetian school of painting was transformed during the later 15th century from one mainly of local significance to one with an international reputation. He thus set the stage for the triumphs of Venetian painting in the 16th century and for the central contribution that Venice was to make to the history of European art.

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