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Giovanni Bellini

Giovanni Bellini (c. 1430 – 1516) was an Italian

Italy

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Renaissance

Renaissance

The Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned roughly the 14th to the 17th century, beginning in Italy in the late Middle Ages and later spreading to the rest of Europe....
painter, probably the best known of the Bellini family of Venetian

Venice

Jacopo Bellini

Jacopo Bellini was an Italy painter. Jacopo was one of the founders of the Early Renaissance painting of painting in Venice and northern Italy....
, his brother was Gentile Bellini

Gentile Bellini

Gentile Bellini was an Italy painter. Born in Venice, the son of the painter Jacopo Bellini, he was christened Gentile after Jacopo's master, Gentile da Fabriano....
, and his brother-in-law was Andrea Mantegna

Andrea Mantegna

Andrea Mantegna was a Venetian Renaissance artist, a student of Ancient Rome archeology, and son in law of Jacopo Bellini. Like other artists of the time, Mantegna experimented with Perspective , e.g., by lowering the horizon in order to create a sense of greater monumentality....
. 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.

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Giovanni Bellini (c. 1430 – 1516) was an Italian

Italy

Renaissance

Venice

Jacopo Bellini

Jacopo Bellini was an Italy painter. Jacopo was one of the founders of the Early Renaissance painting of painting in Venice and northern Italy....
, his brother was Gentile Bellini

Gentile Bellini

Andrea Mantegna

Giorgione

Giorgione is the familiar name of Giorgio Barbarelli da Castelfranco, an Italy painter, a seminal artist of the High Renaissance in Venice....
and Titian

Titian

Early career

Giovanni Bellini was probably born in Venice

Venice

Venice is a city in northern Italy, the capital city of the Italian regions Veneto, a population of 271,251 . Together with Padua, Italy, the city is included in the Padua-Venice Metropolitan Area ....
. 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 in his work a depth of religious feeling and human pathos which is his own. His paintings from the early period are all executed in the old tempera

Tempera

File:Duccio The-Madonna-and-Child-128.jpgTempera is a type of artist's paint and associated Art techniques and materials that were known from the classical world, where it appears to have taken over from encaustic painting and was the main medium used for panel painting and illuminated manuscripts in the Byzantine world and the Middle Ages...
method; the scene is softened by a new and beautiful effect of romantic sunrise color (see for example, the St. Jerome at left).

In a somewhat changed and more personal manner, with less harshness of contour and a broader treatment of forms and draperies, but not less force of religious feeling, are the Dead Christ pictures, in these days one of the master's most frequent themes, (see for example the Pietà: Dead Christ Supported by the Virgin and St. John at right). Giovanni's early works have often been linked both compositionally and stylistically to those of his brother-in-law, Andrea Mantegna (1431-1506).

In 1470 Giovanni's received his first appointment to work along with his brother and other artists in the Scuola di San Marco, where among other subjects he was commissioned to paint a Deluge with Noah's Ark. None of the master's works of this kind, whether painted for the various schools or confraternities or for the ducal palace, have survived.

Maturity

To the decade following 1470 must probably be assigned the Transfiguration (at right) now in the Naples museum, repeating with greatly ripened powers and in a much serener spirit the subject of his early effort at Venice.

Also the great altar-piece of the Coronation of the Virgin at Pesaro

Pesaro

Pesaro is a town and comune in the Italy region of Marche, capital of the Province of Pesaro e Urbino, on the Adriatic Sea. According to the 2007 census, its population was 92,206....
, which would seem to be his earliest effort in a form of art previously almost monopolized in Venice by the rival school of the Vivarini

Vivarini

Vivarini, the surname of a family of Paintings of Murano , who produced a great quantity of work in Venice and its neighborhood in the fifteenth century, leading on to that phase of the school which is represented by Vittore Carpaccio and the Bellinis....
.

As is the case with a number of his brother, Gentile's public works of the period, many of Giovanni's great public works are now lost. The still more famous altar-piece painted in tempera for a chapel in the church of S. Giovanni e Paolo, where it perished along with Titian's Peter Martyr and Tintoretto

Tintoretto

Tintoretto was one of the greatest painters of the Venetian school and probably the last great painter of the Italian Renaissance. For his phenomenal energy in painting he was termed Il Furioso, and his dramatic use of perspectival space and special lighting effects make him a precursor of baroque art....
's Crucifixion in the disastrous fire of 1867.

Too, after 1479-1480 much of Giovanni's time and energy must have been taken up by his duties as conservator of the paintings in the great hall of the ducal palace

Doge's Palace

The Doge's Palace is a Gothic architecture palace in Venice. In Italian language it is called the Palazzo Ducale di Venezia. The palace was the residence of the Doge of Venice....
. The importance of this commission can be measured by the payment Giovanni received: he was awarded, first the reversion of a broker's place in the Fondaco dei Tedeschi

Fondaco dei Tedeschi

The Fondaco dei Tedeschi was the headquarters and restricted living quarters of the German merchant population in Venice, situated on the Grand Canal near the Rialto Bridge....
, and afterwards, as a substitute, a fixed annual pension of eighty ducats. Besides repairing and renewing the works of his predecessors he was commissioned to paint a number of new subjects, six or seven in all, in further illustration of the part played by Venice in the wars of Frederick Barbarossa and the pope. These works, executed with much interruption and delay, were the object of universal admiration while they lasted, but not a trace of them survived the fire of 1577; neither have any other examples of his historical and processional compositions come down, enabling us to compare his manner in such subjects with that of his brother Gentile.

Of the other, the religious class of his work, including both altar-pieces with many figures and simple Madonnas, a considerable number have fortunately been preserved. They show him gradually throwing off the last restraints of the Quattrocento

Quattrocento

Oil

An oil is a chemical substance that is in a viscosity liquid state at room temperature or slightly warmer, and is both hydrophobic and lipophilic ....
medium introduced in Venice by Antonello da Messina

Antonello da Messina

Antonello da Messina, properly Antonello di Giovanni di Antonio was a Sicily Painting active during the Italian Renaissance. His work shows strong influences from Early Netherlandish painting and, unusually for a painter from Southern Italy, he was influential on the art of North Italy, especially Venice....
about 1473, and mastering with its help all, or nearly all, the secrets of the perfect fusion of colors and atmospheric gradation of tones. The old intensity of pathetic and devout feeling gradually fades away and gives place to a noble, if more worldly, serenity and charm. The enthroned Virgin and Child (such as the one at left) become tranquil and commanding in their sweetness; the personages of the attendant saints gain in power, presence and individuality; enchanting groups of singing and viol-playing angels symbolize and complete the harmony of the scene. The full splendour of Venetian color invests alike the figures, their architectural framework, the landscape and the sky.

High Renaissance

An interval of some years, no doubt chiefly occupied with work in the Hall of the Great Council

Doge's Palace

The Doge's Palace is a Gothic architecture palace in Venice. In Italian language it is called the Palazzo Ducale di Venezia. The palace was the residence of the Doge of Venice....
, seems to separate the San Giobbe Altarpiece (at left), and that of the church of San Zaccaria at Venice (at right). Formally, the works are very similar, so a comparison between serves to illustrate the shift in Bellini's work over the last decade of the Quattrocento

Quattrocento

The cultural and artistic events of 15th century Italy are collectively referred to as the Quattrocento . Quattrocento encompasses the artistic styles of the late Middle Ages and the early Renaissance....
. Both pictures are of the Sacra conversazione
Sacra conversazione

In art, the sacra conversazione, which translates as Sacred or Holy Conversation in English, but is normally used in the Italian, refers to a depiction of the Madonna with infant Jesus amidst a group of saints....
(sacred conversation between the Madonna

Madonna (art)

Images of the Madonna and the Madonna and Child are pictorial or scuptured representations of Mary, Mother of Jesus, either alone, or more frequently, with the infant Jesus....
and Saints) type. Both show the Madonna seated on a throne (thought to allude to the throne of Solomon

Solomon

Solomon is a figure described in the Hebrew Bible and the Qur'an. The biblical accounts identify Solomon as the son of David. He is also called Jedidiah in the Tanakh , and is described as the third king of the United Monarchy, and the final king before the northern Kingdom of Israel and the southern Kingdom of Judah split; following th...
), between classicizing

Classical antiquity

Classical antiquity is a broad term for a long period of cultural history centered on the Mediterranean Sea, comprising the interlocking civilizations of Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome....
columns. Both place the holy figures beneath a golden mosaic

Mosaic

Mosaic is the art of creating images with an assemblage of small pieces of colored glass, stone, or other material. It may be a technique of Decorative arts, an aspect of interior decoration or of cultural and spiritual significance as in a cathedral....
ked half dome that recalls the Byzantine architecture

Byzantine architecture

Byzantine architecture is the architecture of the Byzantine Empire. The empire gradually emerged as a distinct artistic and cultural entity from what is today referred to as the Roman Empire after AD 330, when the Roman Emperor Constantine I moved the capital of the Roman Empire east from Rome to Byzantium....
in the church of San Marco

San Marco

San Marco is one of the six sestiere of Venice, lying in the heart of the city. San Marco also includes the island of San Giorgio Maggiore....
.

In the later work he depicts the Virgin surrounded by (from left): St. Peter holding his keys and the Book of Wisdom

Book of Wisdom

Book of Wisdom or Wisdom of Solomon or simply Wisdom is one of the deuterocanonical books of the Bible. It is one of the seven Sapiential or wisdom books of the Septuagint Old Testament, which includes Book of Job, Psalms, Book of Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon , and Ecclesiasticus ....
; the virginal St. Catherine

St. Catherine

St. Catherine may refer to:...
and St. Lucy closest to the Virgin, each holding a martyr

Martyr

The term martyr is most commonly used today to describe an individual who sacrifices his or her life in order to further a cause or belief for many....
's palm and her implement of torture (Catherine a breaking wheel

Breaking wheel

The breaking wheel, also known as the Catherine wheel, was a torturous device used for capital punishment in the Middle Ages and early modern times for public execution by Club to death....
, and Lucy a dish with her eyes); St. Jerome, who translated the Greek Bible

Greek Bible

Greek Bible may refer to:*...
into the first Latin

Latin

Latin is an Italic language, historically spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. Through the Military history of the Roman Empire, Latin spread throughout the Mediterranean and a large part of Europe....
edition (the Vulgate

Vulgate

The Vulgate is an early Fifth Century version of the Bible in Latin, and largely the result of the labors of Jerome, who was commissioned by Pope Damasus I in 382 to make a revision of Vetus Latina....
).

Stylistically, the lighting in the San Zaccaria piece has become so soft and diffuse that it makes that in the San Giobbe appear almost raking in contrast. Giovanni's use of the oil medium had matured, and the holy figures seem to be swathed in a still, rarefied air. The San Zaccaria is considered perhaps the most beautiful and imposing of all Giovanni's altarpieces, and is dated 1505, the year following that of Giorgione's Madonna of Castelfranco.

Other late altar-piece with saints include that of the church of San Francesco della Vigna

San Francesco della Vigna

San Francesco della Vigna is a Roman Catholic church in the Sestiere of Castello in Venice....
at Venice, 1507; that of La Corona at Vicenza

Vicenza

Vicenza, a city in northern Italy, is the capital of the eponymous province of Vicenza in the Veneto region, at the northern base of the Monte Berico, straddling the Bacchiglione....
, a Baptism of Christ in a landscape, 1510; and that of San Giovanni Crisostomo at Venice of 1513.

Of Giovanni's activity in the interval between the altar-pieces of San Giobbe and San Zaccaria, there are a few minor works left, though the great mass of his output perished with the fire of the Doge's Palace

Doge's Palace

The Doge's Palace is a Gothic architecture palace in Venice. In Italian language it is called the Palazzo Ducale di Venezia. The palace was the residence of the Doge of Venice....
in 1577. The last ten or twelve years of the master's life saw him besieged with more commissions than he could well complete. Already in the years 1501-1504 the marchioness Isabella Gonzaga

House of Gonzaga

The Gonzaga family ruled Mantua in Northern Italy from 1328 to 1708. See Duchy of Mantua for a list of rulers.In 1433, Gianfrancesco I Gonzaga assumed the title of Marquis of Mantua, and in 1530 Federico II of Gonzaga received the title of Duke of Mantua....
of Mantua

Mantua

Mantua is a city in Lombardy, Italy and capital of the Province of Mantua of the same name.Mantua is surrounded on three sides by artificial lakes created during the 12th century....
had had great difficulty in obtaining delivery from him of a picture of the Madonna and Saints (now lost) for which part payment had been made in advance. In 1505 she endeavoured through Cardinal Bembo to obtain from him another picture, this time of a secular or mythological character. What the subject of this piece was, or whether it was actually delivered, we do not know.

Albrecht Dürer

'Albrecht D?rer' was a Germans Painting, printmaker and theorist from Nuremberg. His still-famous works include the Apocalypse woodcuts, commons:Image:Duerer - Ritter, Tod und Teufel .jpg , St....
, visiting Venice for a second time in 1506, describes Giovanni Bellini as still the best painter in the city, and as full of all courtesy and generosity towards foreign brethren of the brush.

In 1507 Bellini's brother Gentile died, and Giovanni completed the picture of the Preaching of St. Mark which he had left unfinished; a task on the fulfillment of which the bequest by the elder brother to the younger of their father's sketch-book had been made conditional.

In 1513 Giovanni's position as sole master (since the death of his brother and of Alvise Vivarini

Alvise Vivarini

Alvise or Luigi Vivarini, , was an Italy Painting, the leading Venetian artist before Giovanni Bellini. Like Bellini, he was part of a dynasty of painters....
) in charge of the paintings in the Hall of the Great Council was threatened by one of his former pupils. Young Titian

Titian

File:Tizian 090.jpg Tiziano Vecelli or Tiziano Vecellio, born 1473/1490 , died 27 August 1576, better known as Titian , was the leading painter of the 16th-century Venice school of the Italian Renaissance....
desired a share of the same undertaking, to be paid for on the same terms. Titian's application was granted, then after a year rescinded, and then after another year or two granted again; and the aged master must no doubt have undergone some annoyance from his sometime pupil's proceedings. In 1514 Giovanni undertook to paint The Feast of the Gods for the duke Alfonso I of Ferrara, but died in 1516.

Assessment

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

Quattrocento

The cultural and artistic events of 15th century Italy are collectively referred to as the Quattrocento . Quattrocento encompasses the artistic styles of the late Middle Ages and the early Renaissance....
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, equalled or even surpassed their master. Giorgione he outlived by five years; Titian, as we have seen, challenged him, claiming an equal place beside his teacher. Other pupils of the Bellini studio included Girolamo da Santacroce, Vittore Belliniano

Vittore Belliniano

Vittore Belliniano was an Italy painter of the Renaissance considered to be identical with Bellini Bellini and Vittore di Matteo. He was a native of Venice, active c....
, Rocco Marconi

Rocco Marconi

Rocco Marconi was an Italy painter of the Renaissance period, active mainly in Venice and Treviso. He was a pupil of the painter Giovanni Bellini along with Vittore Belliniano and Girolamo Santacroce....
, Andrea Previtali

Andrea Previtali

'Andrea Previtali' was an Italy painter of the Renaissance period, active mainly in Bergamo. He was a pupil of the painter Giovanni Bellini. In Bergamo, he painted a John the Baptist preaching with other saints for the church of Santo Spirito; a San Benedetto and other saints for the Cathedral of Bergamo, and a Deposition from the Cr...
and possibly Bernardino Licinio

Bernardino Licinio

Bernardino Licinio was an Italian Renaissance painter of Venice and Lombardy. Born in Poscante . He mainly painted portraits and religious canvases....
.

In the historical perspective, Bellini was essential to the development of the Italian Renaissance for his incorporation of aesthetics from Northern Europe. Significantly influenced by Antonello da Messina

Antonello da Messina

Northern Renaissance

The Northern Renaissance is the term used to describe the Renaissance in northern Europe, or more broadly in Europe outside Italy. Before 1450 Italian Renaissance Renaissance humanism had little influence outside Italy....
. As demonstrated in such works as St. Francis in Ecstasy
St. Francis in Ecstasy (Bellini)

The Ecstasy of St. Francis is a painting by the Italian Renaissance master Giovanni Bellini, who finished it around 1480. It is now housed in the Frick Collection of New York, United States....
(c. 1480, at left) and the San Giobbe Altarpiece (c. 1478), Bellini makes use of religious symbolism through natural elements, such as grapevines and rocks. Yet his most important contribution to art lies in his experimentation with the use of color and atmosphere in oil painting.

Works

Madonna with Child (1450-1555) - Tempera on wood, 47 x 31.5 cm, Civico Museo Malaspina, Pavia
Pavia

Pavia , the ancient Ticinum, is a town and comune of south-western Lombardy, northern Italy, 35 km south of Milan on the lower Ticino river near its confluence with the Po River....
Madonna with Child (c. 1455) - Tempera on panel, 72 x 46 cm, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is an art museum located on the eastern edge of Central Park, along what is known as Museum Mile, New York City in New York City, USA....
, New York
New York

The State of New York is a U.S. state in the Mid-Atlantic States and Northeastern United States regions of the United States and is the nation's List of U.S....
Dead Christ Supported by the Madonna and St. John (1455) - Tempera on wood, 52 x 42 cm, Accademia Carrara
Accademia Carrara

The Accademia Carrara is an art gallery and an academy of fine arts in Bergamo, Italy.The origins of the art gallery lie with the Count Giacomo Carrara, a wealthy collector and patron of the arts, who left a generous legacy to the city of Bergamo at the end of the 18th century....
, Bergamo
Bergamo

Bergamo is a town in Lombardy, Italy, about 40km northeast of Milan. The commune is home to circa 117,000 inhabitants. It is served by the Orio al Serio Airport, which also serves the Province of Bergamo, and to a lesser extent Milan....
Crucifixion
Crucifixion (Bellini)

File:Crocifisione di prato, giovanni bellini.jpgCrucifixion is a painting by Giovanni Bellini created in the 15th century. The original painting was a tempera on panel and 54.5 by 30cm and currently resides in the Civico Museo Correr in Venice....
(c. 1455) - Tempera on wood, 54.5 x 30 cm, Museo Correr
Museo Correr

File:Venezia piazza s.Marco.JPGThe Museo Correr is the civic museum of Venice, located in the prominent Piazza San Marco, facing the basilica of the same name, and partially occupies and is entered by way of the Napoleon wing of the bureaucratic buildings, or Procuratie, framing three-quarters of the piazza....
, Venice
Venice

Venice is a city in northern Italy, the capital city of the Italian regions Veneto, a population of 271,251 . Together with Padua, Italy, the city is included in the Padua-Venice Metropolitan Area ....
Transfiguration (c. 1455-1460) - Tempera on panel, 134 x 68 cm, Museo Correr, Venice
Agony in the Garden
Agony in the Garden (Bellini)

The Agony in the Garden is a painting by the Italian Renaissance master Giovanni Bellini, who finished it around 1459. It is on display in the National Gallery, London....
(c. 1459) - Tempera on wood, 81 x 127 cm, National Gallery, London
National Gallery, London

The National Gallery in London, founded in 1824, houses a rich collection of over 2,300 paintings dating from the mid-13th century to 1900 in its home on Trafalgar Square....
Dead Christ Supported by the Madonna and St. John (1460) - Tempera on panel, 86 x 107 cm, Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan
Dead Christ Supported by Two Angels (Pietà, c. 1460) - Tempera on panel, 74 x 50 cm, Museo Correr, Venice
Dead Christ in the Sepulchre (c. 1460) - Tempera on panel, 48 x 38 cm, Museo Poldi Pezzoli
Museo Poldi Pezzoli

The Museo Poldi Pezzoli is an art museum in Milan, Italy.The museum was originated in the 19th century as private collection of Gian Giacomo Poldi Pezzoli and his mother, Rosa Trivulzio, of the family of the condottiero Gian Giacomo Trivulzio, and has a particularly broad collection of Northern Italian and Netherlandish/Flemish artists....
, Milan
Milan

Milan is the second largest city of Italy, located in the plains of Lombardy. It is the capital in the Province of Milan, as well as the Regions of Italy capital of Lombardy....
Blessing Christ (c. 1460) - Tempera on wood, 58 x 44 cm, Musée du Louvre, Paris
Paris

Paris is the Capital of France and the country's largest city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the ?le-de-France Regions of France ....
The Blood of Christ (c. 1460) - Tempera on panel, 134 x 68 cm, National Gallery, London
National Gallery, London

The National Gallery in London, founded in 1824, houses a rich collection of over 2,300 paintings dating from the mid-13th century to 1900 in its home on Trafalgar Square....
Madonna and Child (1460-1464) - Tempera on panel, 78 x 54 cm, Civiche Raccolte d'Arte, Milan
Madonna with Child Blessing (1460-1464) - Tempera on wood, 79 x 63 cm, Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice
Madonna with Child' (Greek Madonna, 1460-1464) - Tempera on wood, 82 x 62 cm, Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan
Madonna and Child (1460-1464) - Oil on canvas transferred from wood, 52 x 42.5 cm, Museo Correr, Venice
Madonna and Child (1460-1464) - Tempera on panel, 47 x 34 cm, Accademia Carrara, Bergamo
Presentation at the Temple (1460-1464) - Tempera on wood, 80 x 105 cm, Galleria Querini Stampalia, Venice
St. Sebastian Triptych (1460-1464) - Tempera on panel, Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice
Nativity Triptych (1460-1464) - Tempera on panel, Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice
Head of the Baptist (1464-1468) - Tempera on wood, diameter 28 cm, Musei Civici, Pesaro
Pesaro

Pesaro is a town and comune in the Italy region of Marche, capital of the Province of Pesaro e Urbino, on the Adriatic Sea. According to the 2007 census, its population was 92,206....
Polyptych of S. Vincenzo Ferreri (1464-1468) - Tempera on panel, Basilica dei Santi Giovanni e Paolo, Venice
Pesaro Altarpiece (1471-1474) - Oil on panel, 262 x 240 cm, Musei Civici, Pesaro
Pietà (1472) - Tempera on canvas, 115 x 317 cm, Doge's Palace
Doge's Palace

The Doge's Palace is a Gothic architecture palace in Venice. In Italian language it is called the Palazzo Ducale di Venezia. The palace was the residence of the Doge of Venice....
, Venice
Dead Christ Supported by Angels (Bellini)Dead Christ Supported by Angels (c. 1474) - Tempera on panel, 91 x 131 cm, Pinacoteca Comunale, Rimini
Rimini

Rimini is a city in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy and capital city of the Province of Rimini. It is located on the Adriatic Sea, near the coast between the rivers Marecchia and Ausa ....
Madonna Enthroned Adoring the Sleeping Child (1475) - Tempera on wood, 120 x 65 cm, Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice
Madonna with Child (c. 1475) - Tempera on panel, 77 x 57 cm, Museo di Castelvecchio, Verona
Verona

Verona is a city in Veneto, northern Italy, one of the seven provincial capitals in the region. It is one of the main tourist destinations in north-eastern Italy, thanks to its artistic heritage, several annual fairs, shows and operas, such as the lyrical season in the Arena, the ancient amphitheatre built by the Romans....
Madonna with Child (c. 1475) - Tempera on panel, 75 x 50 cm, Santa Maria dell'Orto, Venice
Madonna in Adoration of the Sleeping Child (c. 1475) - Tempera on panel, 77 x 56 cm, Contini Bonacossi Collection, Florence
Florence

Florence is the Capital city of the Italy Regions of Italy of Tuscany and of the provinces of Italy Province of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany and has a population of 364,779 ....
Madonna with Blessing Child (1475-1480) Oil on panel, 78 x 56 cm, Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice
Portrait of a Humanist (1475-1480) - Oil on panel, 35 x 28 cm, Civiche Raccolte d'Arte, Milan
Resurrection of Christ (1475-1479) - Oil on panel, 148 x 128 cm, Staatliche Museen, Berlin
Berlin

Berlin is the Capital of Germany city and one of sixteen States of Germany of Germany. With a population of 3.4 million within its city limits, Berlin is the country's largest city....
St. Francis in Ecstasy
St. Francis in Ecstasy (Bellini)

The Ecstasy of St. Francis is a painting by the Italian Renaissance master Giovanni Bellini, who finished it around 1480. It is now housed in the Frick Collection of New York, United States....
(c. 1480) - Oil on panel, 124 x 142 cm, Frick Collection
Frick Collection

The Frick Collection is an art museum located in Manhattan, New York City, United States. It is housed in the former residence of steel magnate Henry Clay Frick, which was designed by Carrere and Hastings and constructed in 1913-1914....
, New York
New York

The State of New York is a U.S. state in the Mid-Atlantic States and Northeastern United States regions of the United States and is the nation's List of U.S....
, United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
Transfiguration of Christ
Transfiguration of Christ (Bellini)

Transfiguration of Christ is a the subject of two paintings by the Italian Renaissance master Giovanni Bellini, who finished them, respectively, in 1454-1460 and 1480....
(c. 1480) - Oil on panel, 116 x 154 cm, Museo di Capodimonte
Museo di Capodimonte

The Palace and Museum of Capodimonte is a grand House of Bourbon palazzo in Naples, Italy, formerly the summer residence and hunting lodge of the kings of the Two Sicilies....
, Naples
Naples

Naples is a city in southern Italy, the capital of the region of Campania and of the province of Naples. The city is known for its rich history, art, culture and gastronomy, playing an important role throughout much of its existence; it is over 2,800 years old....
St. Jerome Reading in the Countryside (1480-1485) - Oil on wood, 47 x 34 cm, National Gallery, London
Madonna Willys (1480-1490) - Oil on panel, 75 x 59 cm, São Paulo Museum of Art, São Paulo
São Paulo

S?o Paulo is the largest city in Brazil, and along with Tokyo, Seoul and Mexico City is among the four largest metropolitan regions of the world....
, Brazil
Brazil

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Madonna and Child (1480-1490) - Oil on panel, 83 x 66 cm, Accademia Carrara, Bergamo
Madonna of Red Angels (1480-1490) - Oil on panel, 77 x 60 cm, Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice
Portrait of a Condottiero - Oil on wood, 51 x 37 cm, National Gallery of Art, Washington
Portrait of a Young Man in Red (1485-1490) - Oil on panel, 32 x 26 cm, National Gallery of Art, Washington
Madonna degli Alberetti (1487) - Oil on panel, 74 x 58 cm, Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice
Madonna and Child (1485-1490) - Oil on panel, 88.9 x 71.1 cm, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
San Giobbe Altarpiece (c. 1487) - Oil on panel, 471 x 258 cm, Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice
Madonna with Child and Sts. Peter and Sebastian (c. 1487) - Oil on panel, 84 x 61 cm, Musée du Louvre, Paris
Frari Triptych (1488) - Oil on panel, Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, Venice
Barbarigo Altarpiece (1488) - Oil on canvas, 200 x 320 cm, San Pietro Martire, Murano
Sacred Conversation (1490) - Oil on panel, 77 x 104 cm, Museo del Prado
Museo del Prado

The Museo del Prado is a museum and art gallery located in Madrid, the capital of Spain. It features one of the world's finest collections of European art, from the 12th century to the early 19th century, based on the former Spanish Royal Collection....
, Madrid
Madrid

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Allegories (c. 1490) - Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice
Sacred Conversation (c. 1490) - Oil on wood, 58 x 107 cm, Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice
Holy Allegory (c. 1490) - Oil on panel, 73 x 199 cm, Uffizi, Florence
The Lamentation over the Body of Christ (c. 1500) - Tempera on wood, 76 x 121 cm, Uffizi
Uffizi

The Uffizi Gallery , one of the oldest and most famous art museums in the world, is housed in the Palazzo degli Uffizi, a palazzo in Florence, Italy, Italy....
, Florence
Angel Announcing and Virgin Announciated (c. 1500) - Oil on canvas, 224 x 105 cm (each), Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice
Portrait of a Young Man (c. 1500) - Oil on panel, 32 x 26 cm, Musée du Louvre, Paris
Portrait of a Young Man (c. 1500) - Oil on wood, 31 x 25 cm, National Gallery of Art, Washington
Portrait of a Young Senator (1500) - Oil on wood, 31 x 26 cm, Uffizi, Florence
Portrait of Doge Leonardo Loredan
Portrait of Doge Leonardo Loredan

The Portrait of Doge Leonardo Loredan is a painting by the Italian Renaissance master Giovanni Bellini, dating from 1501. It is on display in the National Gallery, London....
(1501) - Oil on panel, 61.5 x 45 cm, National Gallery, London
Baptism of Christ (1500-1502) - Oil on canvas, 400 x 263 cm, Santa Corona, Vicenza
Vicenza

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Head of the Redeemer (1500-1502) - Oil on panel, 33 x 22 cm, Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice
Madonna and Child with St. John the Baptist and a Saint (1500-1504) - Oil on panel, 54 x 76 cm, Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice
Crucifixion
Crucifixion (Bellini)

File:Crocifisione di prato, giovanni bellini.jpgCrucifixion is a painting by Giovanni Bellini created in the 15th century. The original painting was a tempera on panel and 54.5 by 30cm and currently resides in the Civico Museo Correr in Venice....
(1501-1503) - Oil on panel, 81 x 49 cm, The Albert Gallery, Prato
Prato

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Sermon of St. Mark in Alexandria (1504-1507) - Oil on canvas, 347 x 770 cm, Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan
Holy Conversation (1505-1510) - Oil on panel, 62 x 83 cm, Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
San Zaccaria Altarpiece (1505) - Oil on canvas transferred from wood, 402 x 273 cm, San Zaccaria, Venice
Madonna of the Meadow
Madonna del Prato (Bellini)

The Madonna del Prato is a 1505 painting of the Virgin Mary and the Christ Child by Giovanni Bellini, now in the National Gallery in London. Originally painted as oil and egg tempera on wood, it has since been transferred to canvas, with damage in places....
(Madonna del Prato; 1505) - Oil on canvas transferred from wood, 67 x 86 cm, National Gallery, London
Pietà (1505) - Oil on wood, 65 x 90 cm, Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice
St. Jerome in the Desert (1505) - oil on panel, 49 x 39 cm, National Gallery of Art
National Gallery of Art

The National Gallery of Art is a national art museum, located on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. The museum was established in 1938 by the United States Congress, with funds for construction and a substantial art collection donated by Andrew W....
, Washington
Washington

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The Assassination of Saint Peter Martyr (1507) - Egg tempera and oil on wood, 99.7 x 165.1 cm, National Gallery, London
Madonna and Child with Four Saints and Donator (1507) - Oil on wood, 90 x 145 cm, San Francesco della Vigna
San Francesco della Vigna

San Francesco della Vigna is a Roman Catholic church in the Sestiere of Castello in Venice....
, Venice
Continence of Scipio (1507-1508) - Oil on canvas, 74.8 x 35.6 cm, National Gallery of Art, Washington
The Murder of St. Peter the Martyr (1509) - Oil on panel, 67.3 x 100.4 cm, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London
Madonna and Child Blessing (1510) - Oil on wood, 85 x 118 cm, Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan
Madonna with Child (c. 1510) - Oil on wood, 50 x 41 cm, Galleria Borghese
Galleria Borghese

The Borghese Gallery in Rome is an art gallery housed in the former Villa Borghese Pinciana, a building that was from the first integral with its gardens, nowadays considered quite separately by tourists as the Villa Borghese gardens....
, Rome
Rome

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Saints Christopher, Jerome and Louis of Toulouse (1513) - Oil on panel, 300 x 185 cm, S. Giovanni Crisostomo, Venice
Feast of the Gods (1514) - Oil on cavas, 170 x 188 cm, National Gallery of Art, Washington
Young Bacchus (c. 1514) - Oil on wood, 48 x 37 cm, National Gallery of Art, Washington
Naked Young Woman in Front of the Mirror (1515) - Oil on canvas, 62 x 79 cm, Kunsthistorisches Museum
Kunsthistorisches Museum

The Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, housed in its festive palatial building on Ringstra?e, crowned with an octagonal dome, is one of the premier museums of fine arts and decorative arts in the world....
, Vienna
Portrait of Teodoro of Urbino (1515) - Oil on canvas, 63 x 49.5 cm, National Gallery, London
Deposition (c. 1515) - Oil on canvas, 444 x 312 cm, Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice
Drunkennes of Noah (c. 1515) - Oil on canvas, 103 x 157 cm, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Besançon
Besançon

Besan?on , is the capital and principal city of the Franche-Comt? Regions of France in eastern France, with approximately 220,000 inhabitants in the aire urbaine in 1999....

Giovanni Bellini

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High Renaissance

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