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 Sacred Allegory oil


Sacred Allegory
Painting ID::  40268
Sacred Allegory
mk156 c.1490 Oil on panel 73x119cm
mk156 c.1490 Oil_on_panel 73x119cm
   
   
     

Giovanni Bellini The Ship of Fools oil


The Ship of Fools
Painting ID::  40269
The Ship of Fools
mk156 after 1491 Oil on panel 58x33cm
mk156 after_1491 Oil_on_panel 58x33cm
   
   
     

Giovanni Bellini The Doge Leonardo Loredan oil


The Doge Leonardo Loredan
Painting ID::  40278
The Doge Leonardo Loredan
mk156 c.1501-05 OIl on poplar 61x45 National Gallery,London
   
   
     

Giovanni Bellini Saint Zaccaria Altarpiece oil


Saint Zaccaria Altarpiece
Painting ID::  40281
Saint Zaccaria Altarpiece
mk156 1505 Oil on wood Transferred to canvas 402x273cm
   
   
     

Giovanni Bellini St.Vincent Ferrer Polyptych oil


St.Vincent Ferrer Polyptych
Painting ID::  41222
St.Vincent Ferrer Polyptych
mk157 c.1465
mk157 c.1465
   
   
     

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     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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