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Sacred Allegory Painting ID:: 40268
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Giovanni Bellini Sacred Allegory mk156
c.1490
Oil on panel
73x119cm
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The Ship of Fools Painting ID:: 40269
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Giovanni Bellini The Ship of Fools mk156
after 1491
Oil on panel
58x33cm
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The Doge Leonardo Loredan Painting ID:: 40278
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Giovanni Bellini The Doge Leonardo Loredan mk156
c.1501-05
OIl on poplar
61x45
National Gallery,London
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Saint Zaccaria Altarpiece Painting ID:: 40281
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Giovanni Bellini Saint Zaccaria Altarpiece mk156
1505
Oil on wood
Transferred to canvas
402x273cm
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St.Vincent Ferrer Polyptych Painting ID:: 41222
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Giovanni Bellini St.Vincent Ferrer Polyptych mk157
c.1465
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Giovanni Bellini
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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. |
Related Artists::. | Hugo Wilhelm Kauffmann | John Dalbiac Luard | Jan van Os | |
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