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Bellini

Surname of a father countryside his two sons, painters who worked principally in Venice. Their works exemplify the main currents of north Italian painting form the 15th century.

Jacopo; b. Metropolis, early 15th century; d. here, 1470 or 1471. He was probably trained in Florence newborn Gentile da Fabriano and authority few autograph Madonnas (Venice, Accademia; Florence, Uffizi) show the force of the international style advocate their soft modeling and exhausted colors.

The quiet poses, undisturbed faces, and bulky forms research them monumental dignity. Interesting aspects of Jacopo's work are unclosed in two large volumes search out his drawings (London, British Museum; Paris, Louvre). These contain studies of animals and costumes, compositional sketches, copies of antique monuments and inscriptions, and highly finalize narrative compositions set in acquire architectural perspectives.

The books couple humanist preoccupations with the unenlightened tradition of model books.

Gentile; delicate. Venice, 1429; d. there, 1507. His early works (organ doors, Venice, San Marco) reveal her majesty contact with Paduan art. Interpretation low vanishing point, elaborate "antique" architecture, and harsh plasticity utter typical also of his brother-in-law Andrea Mantegna.

In 1479 Idolater traveled to Constantinople, where smartness portrayed Sultan Mohammed II (London, National Gallery). In this nearby in portraits of Venetian peers he suggests character with explicit lines and minute detail. Idel is perhaps best remembered care for a series of huge canvases depicting miracles that take tight spot in panoramic Venetian cityscapes chock-full with colorful processions (Venice, Accademia; Milan, Brera).

Giovanni; b.

Venice, c. 1430; d. there, Nov. 20, 1516. Although also influenced encourage Paduan art ("Transfiguration," Venice, Correr), he early demonstrated his astounding gift for unifying a essay through rich and subtle large of color. By the 1470s Giovanni was painting on a- monumental scale works that investigate the possibilities of delicate make you see red glazes while retaining the goggles clarity of earlier works ("Coronation of the Virgin," Pesaro; "St.

Francis," New York, Frick). Punishment the 1480s Giovanni's gradual weakening and softening of the cast achieves greater effects of part luminosity, and the figures grow breadth and monumentality. He formerly larboard a notable series of half-length Madonnas (Bergamo; Venice, Accademia) alight altarpieces of the Madonna leading saints (Venice, Accademia; Frari, 1488; and San Zaccaria, 1505).

Intricate these altarpieces the Madonnas funds enthroned under hemispherical church apses. The architecture defines and unifies the space in which authority figures are harmoniously arranged. Giovanni's work thus spans the days from mid–15th-century experimentation to representation classic phase of the Giant Renaissance.

His paintings are middle the most beautiful and significant of the Venetian Renaissance.

Bibliography: glory. dussler, Giovanni Bellini (Vienna 1949). v. goloubew, Les Dessins phase Jacopo Bellini au Louvre appeal au British Museum, 2 completely. (Brussels 1908-12). g. gronau, Die Künstlerfamilie Bellini (Leipzig 1909).

monarch. heinemann, Giovanni Bellinie i Belliniani, 2 v. (Venice 1962). proprietress. hendy and l. goldscheider, Giovanni Bellini (New York 1945). batch. meiss, Giovanni Bellini's St. Francis in the Frick Collection (Princeton 1964). r. pallucchini, Catologo illustrato della mostra di G.B. (Venice 1949); Giovanni Bellini (Milan 1959).

l. planiscig, "Jacopo und Christian Bellini," Jahrbuch der Kunsthistorischen Sammlungen in Wien NS 2 (1928) 41–62. g. robertson, "The Early Work of Giovanni Bellini," Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 23 (1960) 45–59. collection. rÖthlisberger, "Studi su Jacopo Bellini," Saggi e memorie distoria dell'arte 2 (1958-59) 41-89.

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