Giovanni Bellini (c. 1430 ? 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.
Giovanni Bellini was probably born in Venice. He was brought up in his father's house, and always lived and worked in the closest fraternal relation with his brother Gentile. Up until the age of nearly thirty we find documentary a depth of religious feeling and human pathos which is his own. They are all executed in the old tempera method; and in the last named the tragedy of the scene is softened by a new and beautiful effect of romantic sunrise color.
Both in the artistic and in the worldly sense, the career of Giovanni Bellini was, on the whole, very prosperous. His long career began with Quattrocento styles but matured into the progressive post-Giorgione Renaissance styles. He lived to see his own school far outshine that of his rivals, the Vivarini of Murano; he embodied, with growing and maturing power, all the devotional gravity and much also of the worldly splendour of the Venice of his time; and he saw his influence propagated by a host of pupils, two of whom at least, Giorgione and Titian, surpassed their master. Giorgione he outlived by five years; Titian, as we have seen, challenged an equal place beside his teacher. Other pupils of the Bellini studio included Girolamo da Santacroce, Vittore Belliniano, Rocco Marconi, Andrea Previtali and possibly Bernardino Licinio.
Naked Young Woman in Front of the Mirror, Bellini's first female nude, painted when he was about 85 years old.
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One of Bellini's last paintings, The Feast of the Gods, ranks among the gems of the High Renaissance. It was completed by his disciple, Titian.
The Agony in the Garden is a painting by the Italian Renaissance master Giovanni Bellini, who finished it around 1459. It is on loan from the National Gallery, London.
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Madonna with Child, one of many he painted
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Agony in the Garden
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Giovanni Bellini was probably born in Venice. He was brought up in his father's house, and always lived and worked in the closest fraternal relation with his brother Gentile. Up until the age of nearly thirty we find documentary a depth of religious feeling and human pathos which is his own. They are all executed in the old tempera method; and in the last named the tragedy of the scene is softened by a new and beautiful effect of romantic sunrise color.
Both in the artistic and in the worldly sense, the career of Giovanni Bellini was, on the whole, very prosperous. His long career began with Quattrocento styles but matured into the progressive post-Giorgione Renaissance styles. He lived to see his own school far outshine that of his rivals, the Vivarini of Murano; he embodied, with growing and maturing power, all the devotional gravity and much also of the worldly splendour of the Venice of his time; and he saw his influence propagated by a host of pupils, two of whom at least, Giorgione and Titian, surpassed their master. Giorgione he outlived by five years; Titian, as we have seen, challenged an equal place beside his teacher. Other pupils of the Bellini studio included Girolamo da Santacroce, Vittore Belliniano, Rocco Marconi, Andrea Previtali and possibly Bernardino Licinio.
Naked Young Woman in Front of the Mirror, Bellini's first female nude, painted when he was about 85 years old.
http://i272.photobucket.com/albums/jj171/Azjahh/Art%20Museum/Bellini_mirrornude.jpg
One of Bellini's last paintings, The Feast of the Gods, ranks among the gems of the High Renaissance. It was completed by his disciple, Titian.
The Agony in the Garden is a painting by the Italian Renaissance master Giovanni Bellini, who finished it around 1459. It is on loan from the National Gallery, London.
http://i272.photobucket.com/albums/jj171/Azjahh/Art%20Museum/BelliniFeastofthegods.jpg
Madonna with Child, one of many he painted
http://i272.photobucket.com/albums/jj171/Azjahh/Art%20Museum/Giovanni_Bellini_Madonna.jpg
Agony in the Garden
http://i272.photobucket.com/albums/jj171/Azjahh/Art%20Museum/Giovanni_Bellini_AgonyintheGarden.jpg