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Giovanni Bellini (1430 - 1516)
Giovanni Bellini
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Renowned Venetian colorist; half-length representations of the Virgin and Child; soft, rosy light of dawn and sunset; idyllic pastoral landscapes; spiritual calm; teacher of Titian and Giorgione Art Work
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Giovanni Bellini |
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Male |
| Place of Birth: |
Venice, Italy |
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| Birth: |
1430 |
| Death: |
1516 |
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Quick Facts
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Renowned Venetian colorist; half-length representations of the Virgin and Child; soft, rosy light of dawn and sunset; idyllic pastoral landscapes; spiritual calm; teacher of Titian and Giorgione |
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Oil |
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Renaissance |
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Painter
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Biography
| Marking the beginning of the Venetian school of painting, Giovanni Bellini made an important contribution to the history of painting in subject matter and technique. His long career saw the move away from traditional egg tempera painting to the medium of oil paint, developed in the Netherlands. His atmospheric light, rich colors, and gentle embraces of mother and child were all made possible by Bellini's understanding of the possibilities of oil paint. His innovations paved the way for the subsequent achievements of artists such as Titian, Paolo Veronese, and Tintoretto. Bellini came from a distinguished family of painters. His father Jacopo ran the Bellini workshop until his death in circa 1470. His brother Gentile received great acclaim for his large canvases for public spaces and attended the court of the Turkish sultan at what was then Constantinople (now Istanbul) from 1478 to 1481. By the 1470s Giovanni was a leading painter of small devotional works and portraits, including several commissions for the ducal palace. He produced some of the greatest altarpieces of all time, painted in soft gradations of tone and resonating with spiritual and geometric harmony. Bellini was experimental and groundbreaking with his choice of subject matter. He incorporated poetic landscapes and allegories into his repertoire of religious narratives. In The Agony in the Garden (c 1465) and St. Francis in Ecstasy (1480-1485) a rosy morning glow pervades the scene. The Agony in the Garden is the first known painting of dawn light in Italian art. The artist's use of soft pink even inspired the name for the "Bellini" prosecco cocktail. It is an appropriate image by which to remember an artist who represents the first flourishing of the Venetian colorists. |
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