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BELLINI, Giovanni
      Italian High Renaissance Painter, ca.1430-1516 Giovanni Bellini (c. 1430 ?C 1516) was an Italian Renaissance painter, probably the best known of the Bellini family of Venetian painters. His father was Jacopo Bellini, his brother was Gentile Bellini, and his brother-in-law was Andrea Mantegna. He is considered to have revolutionized Venetian painting, moving it towards a more sensuous and colouristic style. Through the use of clear, slow-drying oil paints, Giovanni created deep, rich tints and detailed shadings. His sumptuous coloring and fluent, atmospheric landscapes had a great effect on the Venetian painting school, especially on his pupils Giorgione and Titian.
BELLINI, Giovanni The Feast of the Gods USA oil painting artist


The Feast of the Gods
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Painting ID::  5102
Visit European Gallery 		  1514 Oil on canvas, 170 x 188 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington

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POELENBURGH, Cornelis van
      Dutch Baroque Era Painter, ca.1586-1667
POELENBURGH, Cornelis van The Feast of the Gods USA oil painting artist


The Feast of the Gods
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Painting ID::  19898
Visit European Gallery 		  1623 Oil on panel Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT.

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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.
Giovanni Bellini The Feast of the Gods USA oil painting artist


The Feast of the Gods
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Painting ID::  58252
Visit European Gallery 		  The Feast of the Gods, c. 1514 completed by his disciple, Titian, 1529; Oil on canvas; National Gallery of Art, Washington

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